Maximin Grünhauser Abtsberg, Riesling, Spätlese, 2016

Name: Maximin Grünhauser Abtsberg, Riesling, Spätlese
Brand: Von Schubert
Price: 183.7 GBP

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justerini & brooks tasting note

Much more backward than the Herrenberg, with intense fermentation aromas that blow off to reveal a complex, high definition, mineral version of Maximin Grünhaus Spätlese, all stones and young stone fruits, jostling and lively. Patience will be required.

critic reviews

93/100David Schildknecht,Vinous

The white peach, pear and white currant on display here offered a jellied impression of ripeness, sweetness and concentration such as I would have anticipated from an Auslese. The nose is effusive and the palate luscious, creamy and glycerol-rich yet delicate and shot through with enlivening fresh lime. As with a number of Grünhaus 2016s, there is an appealingly cooling aspect to this wine’s green herbal accents, while peach kernel and walnut offer piquant counterpoint to the wine’s overt sweetness and luscious fruitiness. In a surprising role reversal, this Abtsberg delivers the sort of vividly tactile sense of smoky and crystalline stony mineral impingement and vibrant sense of dynamic flavor interplay that I typically associate with Herrenberg. (There is no separate auction lot of Abtsberg Spätlese from vintage 2016.)

DRINKING WINDOW 2017 - 2044

date of review 03/2018