Van Volxem Schartzhofberg Riesling GG 2020 750ml 95 pts James Suckling

95 Points Wine Advocate | The 2020 Scharzhofberger GG offers a very clear, delicate and finely fruity bouquet with crushing slate aromas, and it is more openhearted than it normally is. The fruit is perfectly ripe and focused on both nose and palate. Incredibly rich and juicy on the palate, this is a full-bodied, intense and firmly structured Scharzhofberger with fine tannins intermingling with salts on the long and very intense finish. A great wine that still needs to age. Tasted in Wiesbaden in August 2021.

94 Points Vinous | Along with a predictable yet no less lovely meld of white peach, lime and green herbs (thyme, rosemary, marjoram, fennel), the nose of the 2020 Riesling Scharzhofberger Grosses Gewächs delivers an enticing, hard-to-pin-down savor somewhere on the border between mineral and animal. The richly textured yet buoyant inner-mouth impression reprises peach and herbs, while introducing suggestions of chamomile and musky narcissus, and the savory elements now coalesce around a mouthwatering impression of raw oyster innards. The finish is as refreshing and invigorating as it is complex and displays admirable transparency to wet stone, not to mention to the aforementioned array of herbal and floral details.

94 Points James Suckling | In spite of being so youthful, this shows an open nose of mandarin orange and nectarine, together with elegance and beauty, as it moves gracefully over the palate, the excellent ripeness married to silky acidity. Delicate spice at the long finish. Drink or hold.