2017 Kiedricher Turmberg Trocken
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Fusil oils, chalk dust and sea breeze in the nose anticipate the intrigue and mouthwatering salinity that prevail once this wine gets past your lips. There is even a faint hint of herbed chicken stock to enhance the wine’s savory appeal as well as its resemblance to Chablis. The feel is polished but firm. Fresh lime and white peach serve for welcome mid-palate juiciness, but strong pip and pit piquancy shade into bitterness that, along with a concentration of stony, chalky and alkaline elements, serves for a certain severity in the formidably-persistent finish.
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
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Flinty, precise and fresh on the nose, with bright fruit aromas on the pure phyllite slate flavors, the dry 2017 Kiedrich Turmberg Riesling Trocken is piquant and fresh, very minor but in the background is gorgeously fresh juice. This dense and concentrated 2017 is full of vitality, piquancy, precision and tension. A young but highly promising Erste Lage that needs some years to age. Tasted in August 2018.
Slate. More mineral/spice notes here and stone fruit. Taut and almost eye-watering on the palate. A little more severe than the Kiedricher Klosterberg trocken but has great tension and precision. (JH)