Rancid buttery notes populate the nose of the 2010 Heerkretz Riesling GG, which comes from a vintage full of extremes: glacial cold, hail, heat, torrential rainfalls... In the end, it was the Indian Summer that saved the harvest and led to some stunning, age-worthy wines, for example, the 2010 Heerkretz Riesling GG. Golden-yellow in color, the wine opens with a clear, precise and fresh, coolish and savory-mineral, beautifully intense bouquet with ripe and concentrated fruit aromas, including sugared lemons, candied mandarins and pink grapefruits, but also green paprika and a hint of iodine. Round and lush on the palate, this is a refined and elegant, tight and tense dry Riesling with a long, salivating and lemon-bitter finish that reveals enormous intensity and concentration as well as a high level of acidity (which is well integrated, though). It is wines like these that give me my fascination with the 2010 vintage, which is a challenge for any stomach (9.4 grams per liter of total acidity) but which isn't aggressive at all. This is a picture-book 2010 that I would buy again and, if possible, from magnums to be served at my funeral. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted from magnum at the domaine in late August 2023.
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