Riesling Auslese Jungfernwein ***Weingut Josef Bernard-Kieren

2018 Jungfernwein Graacher Domprobst Riesling Auslese *** Aus der Junganlage erste Ernte. Steillage feiner Beerenton Höchster Genuss Wein aus der Junganlage Klasse 1 erste Ernte Gault & Millau 88 P Vinum Sehr gut 87 P moselfinewines.com 92 P The 2018er Graacher Domprobst Riesling Auslese *** Jungfernwein was harvested at 107° Oechsle on virgin vines in the steep Puhl sector of the vineyard, and was fermented down to noble-sweet levels of residual sugar (100 g/l). It offers a rather refined nose made of pear, honey, almond, mirabelle, coconut cream, wet stone and herbal elements. While there is not much acidity on the palate, the wine remains nevertheless quite playful and multilayered and leaves a juicy feel of fruits and ripe acidity in the long finish. Honey and candy floss still saturate the flavors in the after-taste but the raw materials are there for a beautiful dessert wine which may however well require much more than a decade to reach maturity.