Putting my nose over the glass filled with the 2018 Riesling Trocken Goldlack leaves me with a lot of questions. Did I really adore the inaugural 2017 last year? Isn't this a completely different style? A style that comes closer to the new Fass No. 6 even though this is a 2020? The 2018 Goldlack is super clear and elegant on the nose but delivers very precise, rather tropical stone-fruit aromas that are very attractive for cocktail lovers but not for fans like me of the 2017 forerunner. On the palate, the wine keeps its all-too-obvious fruit but remains a clear and elegant, intense and finessed Johannisberger with fine tannins and a long and intense finish, about which there is nothing to argue. The wine is well balanced, complex, salty and stimulating, and the dominant fruit aromas will disappear with time. This is in fact closer to the regular style of Stefan Doctor's Schloss Johannisberg, but stylistically, it's not really a successor of the inaugural 2017. I'd rather recommend the new Fass No. 306 for fans of the 2017, even though this is a 2020 and has not been aged in the historic chateau cellar for two years. 12.5% alcohol. Tasted at Schloss Gobelsburg in July 2021.