2022 Keller Dalsheim Oberer Hubacker Monopol Riesling Trocken GG [JS97][V96][JG95][WA94+]

Producer: Weingut Keller Region: Rheinhessen, Germany Varietal: Riesling Year: 2022 
James Suckling, 97 Points 
“All the colors of the peach: yellow, white and red-fleshed! Fabulous succulence is married to a zesty freshness that creates an electric tension. Great concentration on the mid-palate, but the intensity only builds at the very long, energetic and wet stone finish. Doesn’t want to stop! Drink or hold.” 
Vinous, 96 Points 
“The 2022 Riesling Dalsheimer Oberer Hubacker Grosses Gewächs was grown on yellow limestone. The nose is exquisitely scented, very fine, marked with chervil and lemon balm, purest lemon, yet also a flicker of peach skin. The palate is slender yet dense, fluid and compact, vivid with notions of red-cheeked apple, and again, just a touch of peach among the lemony, pithy concentration. The mid-palate has some heat, shows the site’s power and seems to become riper and riper. It’s like a thoroughbred, raring to go, barely containing its power, very streamlined, driven and straining at the leash. (Bone-dry) Drink: 2025-2050.” 
John Gilman, 95 Points 
“The 2022 Oberer Hubacker Grosses Gewächs is also outstanding in this vintage and shares the same seamless nature of the finest Trocken bottlings at the top addresses across Germany. The bouquet is young and nascently complex, wafting from the glass in a mix of pink grapefruit, blood orange, wild yeasts, a lovely panoply of chalky soil tones, lemongrass, citrus peel and again, that nice touch of smokiness to come as a topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and rock solid at the core, with bright acids, lovely structure and depth of fruit, seamless balance and a very, very long, precise and classy finish. The 2022 will be a great vintage for the Hubacker! 2032-2075.” 
Wine Advocate, 94+ Points 
 “The 2022 Riesling Dalsheimer Oberer Hubacker GG is very clear and reductive in its dense, aromatic and slightly salty nose, which combines fresh pineapple, delicate citrus fruit and fine herbal aromas. Juicy and intense on the palate yet fine and elegant, with delicate salinity and fine tannin structure as well as good length, this is one of Keller’s finest Hubackers of the last 20 years, but it still needs some time to develop. Tasted at the domaine in July this year. Drink: 2025-2039.” 
Alcohol: 12.5% 
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