2023 Winningen Röttgen Riesling VDP.Grosses Gewächs, Mosel, Germany

Deeper and deeper, with a slightly herbal and delicately smoky scent of ripe citrus fruits and stone fruits, accompanied by floral to slightly tobacco-like nuances, hinted honey, and a relatively dark mineral background. Ripe, dense, juicy, slightly sweet fruit with very fine acidity and ripe, very tender phenolics, not just yellow stone fruit on the palate, hinted smoke, pipe tobacco, and cocoa, again rather dark minerality, still delicate yeasty notes, along with red berries, very good, dense, juicy, and spicy finish with sweet melt, but also grip.

Best to drink: Mitte 2025 bis 2032+. What our ratings mean