2015 Dr. Hermann Erdener Treppchen Riesling Spatlese

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: 94 points

From a first-class parcel called Kribslay, with a very shallow slate soil, the 2015 Erdener Treppchen Riesling Spätlese was picked in the end of October with 95° Oechsle but perfectly healthy grapes. The wine opens with a super ripe and intense tropical fruit aroma, intermixed with some spicy and almost caramel-like flavors. Lush and sweet, but also piquant on the palate, this is a generously fruit-intense Spätlese with a very sensual, lush and mouth-filling fruit. It shows lingering salinity and piquancy. Gorgeous! A picture-book Spätlese that tastes "like the Riesling berries when we harvested this wine," Christian Hermann says.

Review Date: April 2017