2023 Nierstein Pettenthal Riesling VDP.Grosses Gewächs trocken, Rheinhessen, Germany

Still slightly sharp smoky-reductive nose with ripe citrus fruits, stone fruits, and black berries with herbaceous notes, especially reminiscent of bay leaves, juniper-etheric spice, and a lot of minerality. Ripe, juicy, dense fruit with a lot of cool etheric-plant spice, lively acidity and grip, again black berry aromas in the background, smoky nuances, pepper, and a bit of juniper, again also bay leaf, good depth, intense, bitter, stony minerality, very firm structure, still hardly developed, has inner strength, very good to long, juicy, fine-herbaceous and again enormously mineral finish.

Best to drink: 2028-2038+. What our ratings mean