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Max Ferdinand Richter Riesling Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr Grosse Gewachs 2017 750ml

size
750ml
country
Germany
appellation
Mittel Mosel
subappellation
Brauneberg
WA
93
Additional vintages
2020 2019 2018 2017
WA
93
Rated 93 by Wine Advocate
Designated as Grosses Gewächs for the first time instead of Spätlese trocken, the 2017 Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling GG offers a very delicate and flinty bouquet of ripe but refined fruit aromas intermixed with beautiful herbal touches and notes of crushed stones. On the palate, this is a full-bodied, elegant, lush and intense Riesling with a pretty powerful, persistently salty finish that is very long and tensioned but fine and precise. This is a lean and elegant style with complexity that comes entirely from the vineyard. This is a superb, very tight and tensioned dry Mosel Riesling that already drinks well but will improve and soften its tannins over the years in the bottle. Still young after ten months on the full lees. Bottled at the end of August 2018. Tasted in late March 2019.
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Max Ferdinand Richter Riesling Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr Grosse Gewachs 2017 750ml

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Varietal: Riesling

Although they originated in Germany's beautiful Rhine Valley, the Riesling grape soon spread around the world, where it thrives in many countries with a colder climate which can support this pale and unique grapes. Riesling grapes are considered one of the finest varietals on earth, capable of expressing fascinating features of the soil type they are grown on, resulting in some highly interesting wines with plenty to offer those who are looking for something different. Riesling grapes are also noted for their aromas, which tend to be highly perfumed, floral and often with smoky notes accentuating their unusual flavor Because this was always the predominant grape grown in Germany and other such countries, Riesling wineries have always been keen to experiment with its range. This has resulted in dry white wines, sparkling wines, semi sweet wines and several others, but the finest examples are usually considered to be the Riesling dessert wines. These are occasionally made with unusual processes, including the 'eiswine' method, in which the grapes are allowed to freeze in the early frosts, or by allowing the development of 'noble rot', which withers the grapes and results in some truly spectacular and unusual flavors.
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Country: Germany

Much has changed over the past few decades in regards to German wine. Long gone are the days of mass produced, sickly sweet white wines which were once the chief exports of this fascinating and ancient wine producing country, and they have been replaced with something far more sophisticated. Whilst Germany continues to produce a relatively large amount of dessert wine, the wineries of the south of the country have reverted their attention to the production of drier, more elegant wines which really make the most of the fine grape varieties which flourish there. Many of the wineries dealing primarily with the excellent Riesling grapes have produced some truly exceptional dry and semi-sweet wines over the past few years, and it seems the world has finally woken up and noticed the extremely high quality of the distinctive produce coming out of Germany today.