Haag/Fritz Riesling Estate 2019

92 points Wine & Spirits: “Oliver Haag’s estate riesling offers a lot of wine for $20. It’s rich in texture and dense in savory flavor, with notes of walnut, green pear and wet slate. Floral scents come up with air, in the mode of white peach, but the overall impression is umami, broad and deep enough to pair with fish or veal in a cream sauce. (Feb 2021)”

90 points Mosel Fine Wines: “AP: 01 20. The 2019er Riesling comes mainly from Estate’s holdings in the Brauneberger Klostergarten, Burgener Römerberg, and Mülheimer Sonnenlay as well as from young vines from the Brauneberger Juffer, and was fermented down to off-dry levels of residual sugar (17 g/l). It offers a gorgeous even if hugely reduced nose made of mirabelle, herbs, spices, and smoke. After some airing, the wine develops a fresher side as lemon, red berry fruits, and floral elements join the party. The wine proves gorgeously elegant and fragrant on the juicy and zesty palate, and leaves a beautiful, mouthwatering feel of white peach, freshly cut apple, and herbs in the long and persistent finish. The presence in the after-taste is simply remarkable, certainly by ‘mere’ Estate wine standards! The balance makes this wine already gorgeously approachable now, but it will offer much pleasure the best part of a decade, if not more. This is a huge success! Now-2029+. (May 2020)”