Weiser-KünstlerRiesling Gaispfad Kabinett Trocken 2018 (750ml)

The 2018er Trabener Gaispfad Riesling Kabinett Trocken comes essentially from 70 year-old un-grafted vines. It offers a gorgeous nose of herbs, pear, bergamot, fine spices and some earthy spices, all wrapped into a little bit of whipped cream. The wine is beautifully delineated on the palate and leaves a gorgeous feel of herbs and fine minerals in the elegant and delicately zesty finish. This is a superb wine which retains true Kabinett character. 2020-2028. 93.

The estate farms eighty-five year-old, ungrafted vines here in the Gaispfad vineyard and it has produced a beautiful Kabinett Trocken in 2018. This is around nine percent octane and delivers a superb bouquet of green apple, a touch of quince, lemongrass, a beautiful base of slate and a topnote of dried flowers. On the palate the wine is medium-bodied, bright and transparent, with lovely intensity of flavor, excellent focus and grip and a long, poised and complex finish that closes with an overt note of salty minerality. Just lovely and absolutely classical in its Kabinett sensibilities- no easy feat in the summer of 2018! 2022-2055+. 91+.