Emrich-Schönleber Riesling Monzinger Frühlingsplätzchen GG 2020

96 points Stephan Reinhardt (Wine Advocate): “The 2020 Frühlingsplätzchen GG is very pure and fresh on the precise and stony, pretty reductive and herbal nose that needs lots of air to open up. Crystalline and pure on the palate, this is a bone-dry, refined, enormously salty and piquant Riesling from partly red slate, loam and quartzite plots. The finish is pure, fresh and precise, very long and expressive. Tasted from a bottle that was opened three days earlier, it is much more charming and open on the nose, showing an intense and complex bouquet of crushed stones, lemons and white fruits. The palate is round and elegant, much lusher and long, but it still has long-lasting salinity on the finish. A gorgeous Frühlingsplätzchen that today comes from stonier plots than in the beginning of the GG saga. 12.5% alcohol. Tasted at the domain in July 2021. Drink: 2026-2060. (Sep 2021)”

95 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): “The 2020 Frühlingsplätzchen Grosses Gewächs is a truly superb young wine. It too comes in at a refined 12.5 percent alcohol in this vintage and offers up an elegant profile on both the nose and palate. The bouquet wafts from the glass in a complex arrangement of blood orange, lime peel, wild yeasts, lovely smoky overtones, kaleidoscopic minerality, cress and a topnote of lemongrass. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, pure and very precise, with a rock solid core, superb mineral drive, snappy acids and laser-like focus on the long, complex and seamlessly balanced finish. This is a stunning GG in the making! 2030-2100. (Jan/Feb 2022)”