Schloss Johannisberg Riesling GG Silberlack 2018

Wine Advocate 94 points - The 2018 Schloss Johannisberger Riesling Silberlack GG is the driest wine ever made at Schloss Johannisberg, and Stefan Doktor is very happy with the wine, which fermented down to 2.2 grams of residual sugar. The grapes come from the south/southwest-facing Langenberg where the grapes were halved straight after the flowering and strictly selected during the harvest in late September and October. Picked at a moderate 92 Oechsle, fermented spontaneously in large oak for eight to ten weeks and assembled in May and bottled in June 2018 opens with a deep, ripe and intense, very clear, pure, elegant, and complex bouquet with ripe fruit aromas and fine, coolish minerality. Lush and generous on the palate, this is around and highly elegant, very persistent and mineral Schloss Johannisberger with reduced power and a tensioned finish. Still young and phenolic but very promising. Tasted at the chateau in August 2019...January/2020

Vinification: The grapes are carefully destemmed and softly crushed. The must ferment in a wooden barrel of 1200 lt. Aging: After fermentation, the wine settles on the lees for six months.