Maximin Grünhauser Herrenberg, Riesling, Auslese, 2018
Chamomile mint and yellow peach on the nose, sweet slick fruit below, very elegant and silky, apple blossom and white flowers then a saline finish. This is pure silk. Not without tension but the fruit is so pure and refined and seamless that it is hard to resist. The Herrenberg has yielded wines of real tenderness this year.
critic reviews
Quince and apple jellies, mingled with Chartreuse-like herbal and floral essences on the nose, transform on the palate into delicate, creamy chiffon (very much as takes place in the corresponding Abtsberg). Delicacy, though, by no means precludes richness, and the soothingly sustained finish delivers an uncanny combination of sumptuousness with buoyancy.
The 2018 Maximin Grunhaus Herrenberg Riesling Auslese displays an elegant and clear nose of deep and flinty notes well-intertwined with delicate, ripe fruit aromas. Lush and crystalline on the palate, with stimulatingly piquant, grippy and beautifully juicy texture, this is a mouth-filling, lush and sweet Auslese with mouthwatering salinity on the crunchy finish. Gorgeous. Tasted from AP 24 19 in June 2019.