Bassermann-Jordan Forster Jesuitengarten Riesling Trocken Grosses Gewächs 2018 (750ml) *
Product price
$74.99
Description
Grosses Gewächs is Germany's designation for a dry wine from a top-rated single site, and this bottling comes from the Jesuitengarten in Forst, one of the great vineyards of the Pfalz. Bassermann-Jordan farms Riesling here in the trocken style, meaning bone-dry, and the 2018 wears the VDP.Grosse Lage classification that marks the estate's most serious parcels.
The nose is precise and concentrated, all lime and lemon lifted by a spicy, faintly smoky edge, with hints of marjoram, black tea, and stone-fruit kernel. On the palate it is medium-bodied and crisp, citrus and spice woven tight against a saline, crystalline core that turns almost savory, closer to a mineral broth than to fruit alone. The finish is long and buoyant, tingling and mouthwatering, held in fine tension between elegance and energy. Excellent now and built to hold.
Expert Reviews
Not only are the limey and lemony aromas racy and fragrant, but theyâre also rather concentrated on the nose. Medium-bodied and very crunchy with integrated sensations of citrus and spices. Bone-dry. Drink now or hold. (James Suckling, September 2019)
The 2018 Riesling GG Jesuitengarten "VDP. Grosse Lage" is deep, precise and intense on the well-defined and spicy-aromatic nose. Lush and piquant on the palate, this is a very elegant, complex and salty-crystalline Jesuitengarten of great class and style. The wine is tight, refined and elegant and reveals a long and persistent finish. Great harmony yet also tension here. A modern classic. Tasted in Deidesheim in December 2019. (Wine Advocate, January 2020)
Smoky, peppery and resinous notes on the nose evoke marjoram and black tea. Peach kernel and bruised apple skin anticipate the prominent piquancy revealed on an otherwise silken palate. A mouthwateringly meaty clam-stock-like savor mingles with the multi-herbal infusion on a surprisingly buoyant finish that leaves the tongue tingling and the salivary glands pumping overtime. (Vinous, March 2021)