2020 Nierstein Hipping Riesling Grosses Gewächs, Rheinhessen, Germany

Firm, dried planty and emphatically yeasty, thereby also slightly bready aroma with tart yellow fruity aromas, slightly smoky and reductive tones, some herbs, red berries and floral traces. Cool, quite juicy, a touch sweetish fruit, lively acidity and grip of slightly sandy tannin, yeasty, somewhat smoky and distinctly herbal on the palate, salt and a hint of chalk in the background, then also distinctly black berries, good persistence, very good, again a hint of sandy-dry finish with bite and bready notes and tea with lemon.

Best to drink: 2024-2028+. What our ratings mean