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Riesling Halenberg Grosses Gewachs, Weingut Schäfer-Fröhlich 2021

Tasting Notes

The 2021 Halenberg GG offers a deep, pure, fresh and aromatic yet also rich and intense bouquet with flinty, iodine and plummy aromas but most of all a fascinating purity of darker-toned slate and lime juice aromas. Full-bodied, rich and powerful on the palate, this is a massive, dense and rich, enormously salty and powerful Halenberg with notes of crushed stones and iodine on the finely tannic finish. Very, very long and aromatic as well as juicy. A giant Riesling. Tasted as a sample at the domaine in July 2022.

98/99
Stephan Reinhardt, RobertParker.com, August 2022

A very dark and slightly austere wine, but with enormous depth. The aromas of candied lemon, grilled lemon and cold-smoked trout bowl you over. Enormously focused and vibrant with brain-rattling energy. Extremely precise and very straight finish. From organically grown grapes with Fair'n Green certification. Drinkable now, but best from 2023.

97
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, November 2022
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