Battenfeld-Spanier

Frauenberg, Riesling, Grosses Gewächs, 2018

Name: Frauenberg, Riesling, Grosses Gewächs
Brand: Battenfeld-Spanier

95/100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

93/100

Vinous

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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

This is wild and spontaneous and primal, from pepper, to smoke to very fine citrus spray and green apples. The palate plays with fine red fruit, a seam of stoniness and a sense of tension and chewiness. Finishing long and haunting, this is a GG with such a huge character - complexity but also great refinement and levity. Cool, stony yet also highly expressive. top stuff. The vines here have very little topsoil before diving straight into limestone. Buffeted by wind from the Zellertal valley, sitting at 280m above sea level, this is always the last vineyard to be harvested and the wines have an aromatic clarity that is startling.

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Critic Reviews

93/100

David Schildknecht,

Vinous

The nose exhibits sea breeze, celery seed, sage and smoked meats, collectively suggesting positive reductive influence and triggering the salivary glands. The polished palate is brightly juicy in its fresh, tangy evocation of grapefruit and lime, while perpetuating the mouthwatering salinity and meatiness intimated on the nose. The lingering finish follows suit, for a combination of refreshment and fascination guaranteed to draw you back for repeated sips.

drinking window 2020 - 2030

date of review 11/2020

95/100

Stephan Reinhardt,

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2018 Nieder-Florsheim Frauenberg Riesling GG is clear and crunchy on the nose, very pure and stony and with bright rather than yellow fruit aromas. Concentrated yet fresh and, again, pure and with lots of salt. Very intense and tight on the silky, highly refined and purely mineral palate, this is an exciting and challenging Riesling with endless salinity and finesse but also complexity and grip. This is a great wine and certainly a long-distance runner that needs our patience. Tasted at the domaine in March 2020.

drinking window 2024 - 2040

date of review 05/2020

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.