The 2018 Rheingau Riesling Trocken offers a shiny, bright and intense, wonderfully aromatic and coolish Rheingau Riesling nose with great precision and even flinty notes. Lush and fine, with good grip and great elegance, this is a remarkably fine and classic dry Rheingau Riesling in the reductive and linear Robert Weil style. Fabulous, really fabulous. 12% alcohol. Tasted from AP 32 19 in August 2019.

Piquantly seed-tinged pear and lime are garlanded in bittersweetly perfumed gentian and iris on both nose and silken palate. The finish here is brightly juicy, mouthwateringly salt-tinged and unusually buoyant as well as surprisingly transparent to both floral and crystalline mineral nuances, making for far and away the most successful, not to mention Kiedrich-typical, Weil Gutsriesling that I can recall. (That said, around 30% of the fruit for this bottling came from high-elevation sites in Hallgarten and Rauenthal.)