Emrich Schönleber

Monzinger, Riesling, Fruhtau, 2017

Name: Monzinger, Riesling, Fruhtau
Brand: Emrich Schönleber
Price: 194.34 GBP

93/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

92/100

Vinous

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2017
75cl
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£32.38
2017
6x75cl
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£194.34

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Probably the most arresting Fruhtau we've tasted from this estate, the 2017 breaths life with a pure, stony bergamot nose, an element of citrus essential oil, a touch of grass and exotic green citrus ; this is an absolute charmer, full of taut yet expressive fruit and perfectly integrated acidity as it dances across the palate. A ballerina.

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Critic Reviews

93/100

Stephan Reinhardt,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2017 Monzingen Riesling Trocken Fruhtau is intense and dense and warmer than the 2016 on the yeasty, still-reductive and currently rubbery nose, where ripe stone fruit aromas are displayed. Lush and crystalline on the palate, this is a rich yet refined and finessed dry Riesling with stimulating salinity and slate-driven piquancy. It's another classic from a warm year, but it's at least on the level of 2016, though richer, yet still pure and so salty. Powerful, in a good way, and highly promising. Tasted fun July 2019.

drinking window 2022 - 2034

date of review 10/2019

92/100

David Schildknecht,

Vinous

An enticingly floral nose tends toward iris and gentian; and the silken palate similarly features billowing bittersweet, musky inner-mouth perfume. At the same time, there are aromatic intimations of fresh apple and white peach, which subsequently translate into infectious juiciness, while suggestions of clover and grasses serve for subtle counterpoint and mineral salts for saliva-inducement in a lusciously-sustained finish. (This is effectively the second wine to Schönlebers’ Frühlingsplätzchen Grosses Gewächs, as explained in further detail in my review of its inaugural, vintage 2015 installment).

drinking window 2019 - 2025

date of review 04/2019

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