Kunstler Hochheimer Kirchenstück Riesling Erste Lage

Oinorama Wine Fair 2022; 3/12/2022-3/14/2022 (Zappeio) : The palate is tight, citrus, ripe melon, ripe apple, white peach, apricot, med body, subtle, long finish, needs time

Klasse Wein, Künstler kann’s einfach.

Nose: overripe peach/nectarine, blueberries, some kind of sweet-smelling green herb (can't place it) Palate: lime, umami, sour apples, maybe a ruby red grapefruit. My notes make it seem like it is very fruity and/or sweet, but it is not at all. More like expressive. Almost with a muscat quality, without the cloying florals or the off-putting (to me at least) "fuzz".

Pop’N’Pour: Pale yellow colour, doesn’t smell of much, perhaps slightly of melon, light to medium body, has a certain residual sugar without the acidity to balance it, in the mouth a little bit of grapefruit and a little bit of melon, in the aftertaste a little bit of peach and a little bit of grapefruit, good length (15 sec), it’s either too young and still closed or simply not good from the start, since the acidity is lacking, my guess …