2017 Monzinger Halenberg Riesling Beerenauslese
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The 2017 Halenberg Riesling Beerenauslese is very intense but clear, even fresh on the spicy and flinty-scented, super aromatic nose with its wholemeal grain aromas. Extremely rich and concentrated, creamy and piquant on the palate, this is a rich and oily-textured yet enormously piquant and even refreshing BA with a long and vital, incredibly pure and refreshing but refined finish. This is a genial TB with great concentration, richness and finesse. It's not as crystalline. Handmade. Tasted in July 2019.
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Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
David Schildknecht, Vinous
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Picked-out at the end of harvest, on October 18, this elixir is dominated on the nose by mirabelle, red raspberry and white peach preserves, with a high-toned hint of honey pointing to botrytis influence. The flavors are correspondingly sweet and sappy, backed by a glycerol-rich, slippery feel. Caramel and crystallized ginger, lend both richness and incisive counterpoint in a formidably-sustained finish whose almost-sticky sweetness is tempered by enlivening squeezes of fresh grapefruit and lime.