2017 Brunnenhauschen Riesling Grosses Gewachs
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From reddish limestone soil, the 2017 Brunnenhäuschen Riesling GG offers a pure, complex and iodine aroma on the intense, concentrated and elegant nose. Round and creamy on the palate, this is a rich and concentrated, firm and elegant, sustainable Riesling with fine tannins and a long and salty finish. Impressive. Tasted at the domaine in March 2020.
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Jancis Robinson MW
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As so often, this bottling leads with winsome floral perfume suggestive of gentian and iris, allied to cooling green herbal allusions and intimations of pit-inflected white peach and zesty lime. The latter subsequently contribute juicy fruity abundance of a sort that is frequently (and to some extent intentionally) missing from Wittmann Rieslings. The polished palate evokes a palpable sense of high extract, and the superbly sustained finish delivers chalk and mouthwatering mineral salts without the abundance of fruit or (now liquid) florality being diminished one bit.
Tropical fruit may be the common denominator in Wittmann's Grosse Gewächse from Westhofen. The Brunnenhäuschen is seemingly more exuberant in its lusciousness than the other three. Passion fruit and orange ooze sweet juice, and it takes a lot of zesty bitter-peel notes to take this to a vibrant conclusion. Lots of juicy substance will make this a favourite with hedonists. (MS)