2020 Lorcher Krone Riesling Trocken
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The 2020 Lorcher Krone Riesling Trocken opens with an intense and complex, very elegant and chalky-fresh bouquet of perfectly ripe Riesling grapes. Lush and silky as well as crystalline on the palate, this is a dense, very complex, finessed and grippy-mineral Krone with a firm, persistently salty and mineral finish. This is an impressive dry Riesling from predominantly 60- to 70+-year-old vines rooting deep in slate soils covering limestone sub-soils. Drink it from a Burgundy glass, in which the wine sits like an open book revealing all about Riesling, chalk and slate. A gorgeous wine with very fine tannins, lingering salinity and dense and juicy, lemony fruit. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted from AP 7 21 in November 2021.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
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Slate with a chalky subsoil. Unlike its 11.5% stablemates, this is labelled dry. Certified organic. Richly expansive nose that truly could be described as a bouquet. Hits the palate with some hazelnut characters as well as the array of tropical fruits. Very precise, and already mouthfilling. It's easy to see how much pleasure this could give at the table. There's a cool creaminess about the texture. Quite long. But it has a lot more to give, (JR)