Battenfeld Spanier, Hohen-Sulzen Riesling, Rheinhessen

2015 German Rieslings; 3/28/2018-3/29/2018 (Mark's) : I liked this more than the group (7/8) although it did get one first place vote. Probably not helped by coming after a bunch of sweeter wines. Light golden in color. The nose has a nice minerality and interestingly, comes off as sweet and a bit sugary. On the palate, this is definitely dry. Deep with a nice minerality. It has a slight herbal note with some asparagus and finishing with a sour citrus …

Wow, loved it! This opened my eyes to how wonderful a quite ripe dry Riesling with tropical fruit flavors can be: it's not at all flabby, there's plenty of acidity plus mineral and other non-fruit things going on. OK, so there's more than one way to make a Riesling with, it seemed to me, auslese-ripe grapes and still retain nice energy and balance.

Nice and elegant.

Excellent with: Crepes with asparagus parmasan doublecream and bacon

Really good, But not with mountain trout, mashed potato and (especially) white wine sauce.