Künstler Riesling Rüdesheimer Berg Rottland Grosses Gewächs 2018

- 97 Punkte JAMES SUCKLING: „So much dried peach, slate and lavender with hints of violet. Medium-to full-bodied, tight and refined with gorgeous depth and intensity. Compacted and layered. Teasing you here. Salted citrus at the end. Drink or hold.“

- Robert Parkers WINE ADVOCATE, Stephan Reinhardt: „Künstler's 2018 Rüdesheim Berg Rottland Riesling Trocken GG VDP. Grosse Lage comes from a 0.3-hectare plot close to the Rhine River on deep loess-loam soils mixed with quartzite, slate and gravel. The 2018 opens with a pretty yeasty brioche bouquet at this stage, whereas the elegant fruit remains discreet but bright. The attack on the palate is remarkably vital and racy, but it is still a bit irritating for me to connect Gunter Künstler with a terroir from Rüdesheim, which is from another world compared to Hochheim and Kostheim. This Rottland definitely needs more time to reveal its real talents, but it is already elegant, piquant and precise, prodded with lemony freshness and good salinity. The finish is still somewhat bitter but also yeasty and, thus, quite promising. Tasted in August 2019.“

- VINOUS, David Schildknecht: „A site-typical nose offers prominently pit- and seed-inflected white peach and lemon. The full, doughy palate suggests stone suffusion, leading to a forceful, slightly austere finish. Hopefully, greater interest will develop with time, though this is not a 2018 notable for its clarity or sheer juiciness.“