2016 Maximin Grunhaus Herrenberg Riesling Grosses Gewachs, Mosel, Germany

This offers a slightly reductive nose of pear, wet stone, grapefruit, cassis and herbs. The wine is beautifully well balanced on the palate and leaves a great feel of herbs in the long finish. The upside potential is huge if the wine manages to develop aromatically at maturity. 2021-203

Crab apple, white currant and lime combine for a penetratingly, prickling pungent nose and a tart-edged, tingling, crunchy, piquant palate impression. The feel is firm, and at 11.7% alcohol this manages a welcome sense of buoyancy. Impingements of smoke, stone, cress and nettle further enhance the wine’s invigorating, almost vibratory cast for a formidable finish. There is a certain severity here that will probably diminish with time in the bottle, and this impressive bottling appears to have energy to spare for the long haul. Here is one of the numerous Grünhaus 2016s decisively superior to their 2015 counterparts.

91 points David Schildknecht vinous.com