Weingut Wagner Stempel - Heerkretz Riesling GG 2019

JAMES SUCKLING: "Here, you really have to ask yourself how a peach could be more perfect than this? And what makes this dry riesling so amazing is the glacial-water feel to its fresh side. With every swirl of the glass, more spice emerges from the abyss. Somehow, the body of the wine seems to give it almost no weight and it wafts over your palate like a piece of silk blown in the wind. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold."

DECANTER: "Funky, flinty, smoky reduction is full of promise on the nose. The palate holds pepper and grapefruit zestiness. The concentration has a lovely, pithy edge and tingles with vivid citrus brightness. There is a cool, profound core of freshness. Daniel Wagner time and again crafts compelling, salty Rieslings in his remote but geologically fascinating corner of Rheinhessen. The south-facing Heerkretz site is of rhyolite and the wine has all the spice to prove it. Drinking Window 2025 - 2050"

JANCIS ROBINSON: "Still quite reticent on the nose, a little yellow fruit shares the olfactory stage with gentle notes of mint, tea leaves and spirit of melissa. The palate shows plenty of grip and it is difficult to differentiate at this stage whether this comes from wood tannins or a phenolic herbaceousness, probably both. Compact minerality dominates at this early stage, giving the wine some truly sharp contours."

WEINWISSER: "Transparente Nase mit feiner Zitrus-Steinobst-Note, dabei klar und würzig. Im Mund trocken und zupackend, feiner Gerbstoffgriff, durchweg pikante Zitrusfrucht, mineralisches Finale."