Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg Kabinett, Maximin Grünhaus - Weingut der Familie von Schubert 2019

The 2019 Maximin Grünhaus Abtsberg Riesling Kabinett is pure, fresh and stony on the floral/herbal and even flinty-scented nose. On the palate, this is a concentrated yet fresh and piquant, tensioned and crystalline Abtsberg Kabinett with juicy fruit and remarkable elegance. It is rich and sweet for a Kabinett, but it's also so buoyant and vivaciously salty and pure. An impressive Kabibett that just needs a decade to fly. The 2019 was bottled with 77 grams of residual sugar and 8.2 grams per liter of total acidity. 7.5% alcohol. Persistently salty. Tasted from AP 08 20 in July 2020. Drink 2030 - 2060.

The 2019er Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg Riesling Kabinett was fermented down to sweet levels of residual sugar. It offers a comparatively big yet nicely engaging nose made of elderflower, white peach, cassis, cream, and chalky minerals, all wrapped into some more herbal and spicy notes of tea, cardamom, and mint. The wine develops the creaminess of a Spätlese on the palate but proves gorgeously alluring in the juicy and zesty finish. A sense of sweetness still needs to integrate in the aftertaste, something which will have happened in a decade or so. This gorgeous sweet wine offers great complexity underlined by an engaging yet creamy and delicately opulent structure. We would not be surprised if it would exceed our high rating at maturity once the early sense of sweetness has receded. 2029-2049