Müller-Catoir Muskateller Haardt Trocken 2020

93 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): “The villages level bottling of Muskateller from Haardt is made from much older vines than the regional bottling, as the most venerable plantings are now nearly forty-five years of age. The wine comes in at twelve percent alcohol again in 2020, with 8.2 grams of acidity and 7.2 grams of sugar. It delivers a deep and complex bouquet of pear, passion fruit, a hint of coriander seed, a complex base of soil tones, orange blossoms, a hint of petrol and an exotic touch of vanilla bean in the upper register reminiscent of Riesling from the Wehlener Sonnenuhr. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and still quite primary, with a superb core of fruit, zesty acids and excellent focus and grip on the long and very promising finish. This is more serious by an order of magnitude and will need five to seven years to properly start to blossom. It will be outstanding wine in due course. 2026-2055+. (Sep/Oct 2016)”