The 2020 Wolfer Goldgrube Riesling Sp?tlese is very clear, deep, refined but heavily reductive on the nose that shows ripe and well-defined, very precise and elegant fruit intertwined with crushed slate aromas. Piquant and stimulatingly salty on the palate, this is a sensationally salivating Sp?tlese with a round and elegant fruit texture and very delicate, crystalline and gorgeous acidity. This is a mind-blowing Sp?tlese, of which collectors will need at least a dozen cases. Nobody among us will see this wine beyond its peak. 8.5% stated alcohol and 72 grams of residual sugar. Tasted in October 2021.

The 2019 Wolfer Goldgrube Riesling Sp?tlese is discreet and elegant yet concentrated on the sublime and flinty nose with its precise and perfectly healthy fruity aromas. Sweet and piquant on the palate, this is a mouth-filling yet playful and frisky Sp?tlese. It is slightly too sweet for my personal taste, but it is stimulatingly piquant on the finish. Keep the 2019 for a decade and it will be delicious. Tasted from AP 02 20 in May 2020.

From very old, ungrafted vines in the Portz plot, the 2018 Wolfer Goldgrube Riesling Sp?tlese is generously intense on the nose that displays a clear and coolish flinty/crunchy slate bouquet with saffron notes and super ripe and elegant fruit. Lush and round on the palate, this is a mouth-filling and textured, beautifully salty and mouthwatering Sp?tlese with stimulating salinity. Due to its texture and flavors, this is Riesling's answer to lobster, and it is absolutely fabulous, piquant and long. 8.5% alcohol. Tasted at the domain in September 2020.

The 2017 Wolfer Goldgrube Riesling Sp?tlese is bright, intense and floral on the nose, with perfectly ripe fruit and fine slate and herbal aromas. Racy on the first palate, this is a bright, lush, piquant, highly finessed yet also concentrated and juicy Sp?tlese with a long, tensioned, very mineral and flinty finish. This 2018 reveals good grip and tension but remains pure, finessed and elegant. Highly promising. Tasted in March 2019.

From the Portz plot, the 2016 Riesling Wolfer Goldgrube Sp?tlese is very clear, piquant and fresh on the nose that shows lovely depth and a flinty tone. Round and piquant on the palate, with fresh, juicy fruit and stimulatingly salty acidity, this is a clear, straight and finessed Sp?tlese that's a great pleasure to drink not now but in 10 years.