Ellergrub Riesling Grosse Eule #6, Weiser Kunstler

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From up to 100-year-old vines on blue slate, the 2018 Ellergrub GE (Grosse Eule) displays an intense citrus color and opens with a deep, complex and flinty nose of slate intermixed with ripe fruit aromas wrapped in a coat of lees. Full-bodied and very elegant on the palate, this is a fine, piquant and refreshing dry Riesling with power and lingering salinity. The grapes were pressed very gently in that warm and dry vintage, and the maceration time was significantly shorter than usual to keep the freshness in the 2018s, which have a firm tannin structure anyway and need some time to polymerize the tannin. Tasted in May 2020.