Weingut Dr. Hermann, Erdener Treppchen Trokenbeerenauslese LGK 2020

Picked at 205° Oechsle, the intensely golden colored and viscous 2020 Erdener Treppchen Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese (Long Gold Capsule) offers an oily, essence-like but precise and even fresh nose of very concentrated ripe and stone fruit spiced with slate plates. Intense and enormously dense, respectively oily like an Eszencia, with tea and herbal flavors on the palate, this is an extremely rich but also fine, elegant and stimulating TBA with exciting acidity that makes this taste not only sweet but hedonistic. Orange and lemon flavors as well as sage aromas populate the finish that is very delicate, piquant and oh-so-stimulating due to its salinity and great balance. A fantastic TBA with 6% stated alcohol and 330 grams of residual sugar, which is counterpointed by 14.8 grams per liter of total acidity. Natural cork. Tasted from AP 29 21 in November 2021.