2017 Riesling Langenmorgen Grand Cru Pfalz Dr. Bürklin-Wolf

Marketed as grand cru since 2013, the 2017 Langenmorgen G.C. is freaky pure and untamed on the clear and precise, deep, fine and elegant nose, with vanilla bean flavors. Lush and creamy on the palate, this is a very elegant, pure and persistently salty Riesling with a very long, juicy and concentrated finish. Highly complex and elegant, this 2017 is far too young to be served today. It's a great wine to be cellared for at least another 5-7 years. Tasted in Wachenheim in December 2019.

Soon after Libelli remarked that the 2017 G.C. wines are not very aromatically expressive from tank, along comes this Langenmorgen with head-turning intensity of corn shoot, struck flint and a meadow full of flowers. The polished palate is already infectiously juicy in its amalgam of white peach and sweet corn, and hazelnut- and peach kernel piquancy, sizzle of corn shoot and a sense of crystalline stony impingement inform a mouth-shakingly vibrant finish.