Höllenpfad im Mühlenberg Riesling Grosses Gewächs, Weingut Dönnhoff 2019

Tasted as a sample in April 2020, months before the bottling, the Roxheim 2019 Riesling GG Höllenpfad Im Mühlenberg opens very pure, elegant and coolish on the flinty, refined, very well articulated and precise nose. Full-bodied yet super fine, crystalline and salty on the palate, this is a linear, piquant and elegant yet tensioned Höllenpfad with very good length, intensity and complexity. Highly promising. 2020-2040

The 2019er Höllenpfad im Mühlenberg Riesling Trocken -GG-, as it is referred to on the consumer label, offers a superbly creamy and attractive nose of yellow peach, aniseed herbs, melon, red apple, apricot blossom, and lime tree. The wine proves nicely juicy and fruit-driven as green apple and lime pep up the palate. It leaves one with a zesty, linear, and herbal feel in the currently still rather slightly tart finish. This wine needs a couple of years to integrate its elements and reveal its underlying complexity. 2023-2029