2016 Weingut Keller, Riesling G-MAX

96/100 RobertParker.com, Drink Date: 2036 – 2060 The 2016 Riesling G-Max opens with an enormously wild nose with untamed notes and tobacco aromas as well as intense, dense and fleshy fruit that intermingles with iodine notes. Rich and elegant on the first palate, the 2016 quickly turns to a younger, slimmer and fresher Riesling and becomes taut, firm and salty toward the finish. From a vintage that saw an extremely wet spring but a dry and hot summer, the 2016 develops very good length and intensity but is still a young wine that shall better be forgotten for a while. Tasted blind as wine number 16 of the G-Max vertical at Steinheuer’s Restaurant Zur Alten Post, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, in January 2024.