Christmann 'Idig' GG Riesling 2021

'Deep flinty nose with complex mirabelle, fresh quince and baking spice notes. Ripe and very focused, medium-bodied with an energy that builds and builds as it drives its way out towards the distant horizon. Excellent aging potential. Drinkable now, but best from 2023.' 97 points. Stuart Pigott, jamessuckling.com

'From Christmann's most prestigious site and a de facto monopole, the 2021 Idig Konigsbach Riesling Grosse Lage offers a pure, intense and chalky/iodine-scented bouquet of ripe and well-concentrated and spicy/stony Riesling fruits. Dense and savory on the palate, with fine, chalky tannins and tart lemon juice notes, this is a dense, refined and persistently saline and tannic Idig with stimulating bitters. It is beautifully astringent and promising. 12.5% stated alcohol. Diam cork. Tasted in Wiesbaden in August and again (with much more pleasure) in November 2022 at the domaine.' 95 Points. Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate

Long clean and loaded. Intense with detail that is refined and unobtrusive for such a powerful wine. Searing acidity. The tightest and most closed of all the wines at our GG lunch at MU Mu September 2023 - Ian Cook