2009 Westhofen Brunnenhäuschen Riesling Grosses Gewächs trocken, Rheinhessen, Germany

Deep, firm and complex aroma of ripe citrus fruits and stone fruits with hints of yellow spice, floral nuances and distinct minerality. Firm and very juicy in the mouth, ripe, relatively sweet, partly candied fruit with very fine acidity and grip of ripe tannin, herbal and yellow-spicy notes, persistent, deep and quite concentrated, enormous minerality, restrained power, very good to long, sweetly juicy, spicy and again mineral finish with bite. The wine is obviously emerging more and more from a longer phase of closure and is now back to the level of its youth; if the sweetness was still a little dominant a few months ago, it is now perfectly integrated again thanks to the increasingly complex, in parts also animatingly tart minerality. Now at the beginning of its best form, which it can probably hold for a very long time

Best to drink: Bis 2030+. What our ratings mean