The 2019 Schloss Johannisberger Riesling Spätlese Grünlack is coolish, intense yet subtle, fresh and elegant on the nose, and the fruit is still discreet and free of botrytis. Sweet and clear on the palate, this is a pure, fresh, elegant and tightly structured Spätlese with stimulating salinity on the persistent and grippy finish. Still far too young to be served today but promising. Tasted in June 2020.

Schloss Johannisberg is the spiritual home of Spätlese and they still know how to do it. The fragrance is not shy yet filigree, with great diversity of fruit. On the palate The Grünlack is simply delicious, juicy, zesty, animating and tingling. Sweet apple, peach and orange are just some constituents of an amazing array of fruit, sweet and refreshing at the same time. (MS)

What do you say about a wine that almost literally knocks you off your chair? All the flowers and fruits of the tropics, but so delicate and refined that you can hardly get a grip on it. Such brilliance and such precise balance enables this medium-sweet riesling to defy effortlessly the rules of the category and confidently swim directly against the current of wine fashion. Supernatural freshness at the finish. Taste this before you die! Drink or hold. Stuart Pigott