Albert Boxler, Sommerberg Riesling Vintage:2018 white currants

white currants

(from vines planted in 1992)

I can’t recall a more vivid vinous evocation of cantaloupe – every much emphasizing its musky and earthy aspects – than is on display here

sandalwood and wet stone hints

Here too the mouth feel of the middle weight and fleshy flavors is refined and velvety while delivering more size and weight if less minerality on the mildly austere finish where the wood announced by the nose reappears

Albert Boxler, Sommerberg Riesling Vintage:2018 white currantsThe 2018 Riesling Grand Cru Sommerberg shows a clear, deep and complex, very fine and elegant but generous nose of fruity, floral and iodine notes. Full bodied and rich but fine and elegant on the palate, this is a Sommerberg with a persistently saline finish with attacking and slightly drying tannins. 14% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in April 2022.