Piesporter Goldtropfchen, Riesling, Grosses Gewächs, 2017
Honey and smoke and a touch of tropicality on the nose leads to crisp mango, passion fruit and pineapple on the palate. Extrovert but not cloying due to the fabulous energy running throughout. Taut with extract and deeply flavoured, this is a GG to win over the hearts of those that think the Mosel is too cold for great and dry wines.
critic reviews
Here we have the sort of sunny brightness and juiciness of lemon and grapefruit that are also encountered (less expectedly) in this year’s Juffer Grosses Gewächs. The feel is firm but with a flattering trace of silkiness. Hints of huckleberry and site-typical cassis display their piquant side and serve for counterpoint on a seriously sustained, stone-lined but vibrant and engagingly juicy rather than austere finish. Haag noted that “I think we were the last to harvest in Goldtröpfchen.”
The 2017 Goldtropfchen Riesling GG is fine and flinty on the nose, revealing a very elegant, refined and crystalline bouquet. Silky, lush and highly elegant on the palate, this is an intense, fruity, remarkably refined and polished, very persistent Goldtropfchen with great terroir expression and a crunchy, grippy and salty finish. Forget all the lychee characteristics you might have read about regarding this infamous vineyard. This is its most aristocratic expression, but this glass is the first emptied of all the crus. Tasted from a decanted bottle in March 2019.