Battenfeld-Spanier 2019 Frauenberg Riesling Großes Gewächs, ØKO

97 Point Robert Parker: Stephan Reinhardt, wine advocate, August 2020: „Riesling meets Chablis! The barrel sample of the 2019 Nieder-Flörsheim Frauenberg Riesling GG is intense and complex on the pure, chalky, floral and nicely reductive nose. Round, charmingly intense and juicy on the palate, this is a refined and silky-textured Frauenberg with a pure, very elegant, stimulatingly precise and salty-crystalline finish. Very promising. Tasted in April 2020.

As far as my first impressions from spring this year do not deceive me, Hans Oliver Spanier pressed his perhaps best Riesling to date in fall 2019. I have never tasted so much tension, precision and chalky terroir expression under the BattenfeldSpanier brand as I did in his 2019 Grosses Gewächs bottlings. The Frauenberg Riesling GG is outstanding, as are the two Rieslings from the cooler Zellertal, Zellerweg Am Schwarzen Herrgott and the Zellertal Kreuzberg, which was still extremely racy and nervous when I tasted it in April. Its tension and concentration, however, will make this another great wine that will be auctioned in Bad Kreuznach in September this year, which is also the release month of all the other GGs listed here.“