Keller Riesling G-Max 2021

100 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 2021 G-Max Riesling from Weingut Keller is also pretty good this year. The inherent elegance one finds in the best 2021ers is on full display in this vintage of G-Max, which also comes in at 12.5 percent alcohol and offers up a celestial bouquet of tart orange, sweet grapefruit, citrus peel, wild yeasts, again, a faint hint of guava, a multi-faceted foundation of limestone, orange blossoms, gentle smokiness and a topnote of lemongrass. On the palate the wine is deep, pure and full-bodied, with a great girdle of acidity, superb extract to buffer the acids, a fine core of fruit, laser-like focus, scintillating minerality and perfect balance on the long, complex and utterly sublime, electric finish. Stylistically, this is my favorite vintage of G-Max yet produced, as there is such an effortless sense of refinement here. It will need plenty of time to reach its apogee, but it will be a light in the darkness for decades and decades to come. 2037-2100. (Sep/Oct 2022)"

99 points Stuart Pigott (JamesSuckling.com): "The cool and smoky nose makes this sleek and vibrant, medium-bodied dry riesling compellingly attractive. Sensational mineral freshness and limey acidity are almost perfectly interwoven with the still youthful stone-fruit character. Incredibly long, stony finish. Made for the long-term, but already delicious. Drink or hold. At the Keller G-Max vertical tasting. (3/22/24)"

98 points CellarTracker.com community score.

97 points Stephan Reinhardt (Wine Advocate): "The 2021 Riesling G-Max is another highlight of the history of this mysterious wine. Cool, citrusy, taut and fresh on the nose, with rocky notes and a concentrated but elegant Riesling and yellow stone fruit aroma, this is a juicy, zesty and taut dry Riesling form a coolish and rainier vegetation period. The wine reveals a concentrated core and well-integrated mineral acidity. The 2021 is slender, very fine and enormously animating G-Max that I tasted blind as wine number 21 of the G-Max vertical at Steinheuer's Restaurant Zur Alten Post, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, in January 2024. Drink: 2030-2065. (3/29/24)"

97 points David Schildknecht (Vinous): "With basil, gentian, juniper berry, coriander seed, white peach and lime, this is another Keller Riesling of its vintage whose ravishing aromatic display is distillate-like in its forcefulness and high-toned aura. The feel is flatteringly glossy, and the inner-mouth impression of implosive density as well as underlying stoniness prove entirely compatible with a sense of buoyancy and refreshingly bright, sheer juiciness. The mouth-shaking finish displays striking transparency to a kaleidoscopic array of herbal, floral, fruity and mineral elements. (As with the Hipping Grosses Gewächs in this collection, I feel it necessary to point out why I don’t quantify a “drinking window” that begins in some as yet far-off year. If you could just abstract from the near-impossibility of securing for yourself a single bottle of this wine, then you would feel no compunction after pulling the cork today, as the experience would be enormously gratifying and exciting.) Drink: 2022-2048. (Mar 2023)"