From 70- to 80-year-old vines, the 2017 Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett is clear, bright, cool and flinty on the crystalline and reductive nose. The attack on the palate is racy-piquant, and the wine reveals lush and delicate fruit with lingering salinity and a frisky character as well as serious ambitions. The wine is slightly creamy (though not as much as the Juffer #4) yet tensioned, vital and highly stimulating, but it needs some years to soften its playful aggressions. Tasted in March 2019.

Exotic aromas of passion fruit are followed by lime and mineral details on the palate in this intense, racy Riesling. Has an electric feel buzzing throughout. Shows fine length. Drink now through 2025. 500 cases made, 150 cases imported.??–AZ??Region: Germany / Mosel Select to Add