Frühlingsplätzchen, Riesling, Grosses Gewächs, 2020
Sparkling yellow fruits with peach and apricot, lemon-thyme, heather and rock salt. Powerful but crystalline and elegant with spices gradually unfurling. Hints of iron and pressed flowers. Both powerful and elegant at the same time. The Frühlingsplätzchen displays amazing inner tension and a fine haunting length. As always, in fact. Grown up but also inviting. Produced from 30 year old vines, fermented naturally and raised in traditional German casks. A red slate and gravel dominated site facing southwest to southeast
critic reviews
The 2020 Fruhlingsplatzchen GG is very pure and fresh on the precise and stony, pretty reductive and herbal nose that needs lots of air to open up. Crystalline and pure on the palate, this is a bone-dry, refined, enormously salty and piquant Riesling from partly red slate, loam and quartzite plots. The finish is pure, fresh and precise, very long and expressive. Tasted from a bottle that was opened three days earlier, it is much more charming and open on the nose, showing an intense and complex bouquet of crushed stones, lemons and white fruits. The palate is round and elegant, much lusher and long, but it still has long-lasting salinity on the finish. A gorgeous Fruhlingsplatzchen that today comes from stonier plots than in the beginning of the GG saga. 12.5% alcohol. Tasted at the domain in July 2021.