2018 Weingut Keller, Riesling G-MAX

From a vintage with a very warm and extremely dry summer, Keller’s 2018 Riesling G-Max is clear, very dense and slightly phenolic on the nose that quotes citrus notes and ripe, concentrated stone fruit aromas. Juicy and very dense or even massive in its firm structure but also provided with fine mineral acidity, the 2018 G-Max develops an enormously salty, long-lasting finish but remains an embryonic dry Riesling with the structure of a Clos-Ste-Hune from Trimbach and probably also its life expectancy. Tasted blind as wine number 17 of the Keller vertical, right after the 2016 vintage at Steinheuer’s Restaurant Zur Alten Post, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, in January 2024.