2021 Weingut Günther Steinmetz Dhroner Grosser Hengelberg Riesling Monopollage Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  4/14/2024 - jgreco Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Perfectly serviceable summer sipper

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  12/14/2023 - Keith Levenberg Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Maybe my favorite Steinmetz ever. Big, punchy aromatics, most of it mineral, smells like a salt lick and spring flowers. It might prepare you for yet another austere, punishingly dry riesling, but that is not what you get at all. Instead, the fruit is full and luscious, lemony but more in the realm of creamy lemon curd, and still feels mostly dry but round enough it's hard to believe there isn't at least a little sweetness. The mineral element frames the luscious fruit nicely as it's got loads of crystals and crunch.

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  6/26/2023 - decaturwinedude wrote: 94 Points

  I have a few so I took one for a spin: The level of coiled concentration and intensity here is nuts. This wine needs years to unwind. So much extract. There's a cool orchard fruit that is living beneath layers of cracking acidity and energy. A serious wine that is barely ready to show its true class. Super stuff.

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  6/20/2023 - Aravind Asok wrote:

  In the interest of science. The extract and intensity on this wine are off the charts. On the nose: refine peach skin, tangerine, sweet tea, ultra-sweet meyer lemon; words do not do justice to the aromatic intensity. On the palate: acidity that crackles and sizzles, but balanced by a gravitas; supremely elegant, cloudlike meyer lemon and ripe peach, soft lime and a finish charting a smooth gradient from dense to evanescent. Absolutely stellar and one of the best wines I have had this year.

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