Keller Riesling G-Max 2023

98-100 points Stephen Reinhardt (Wine Advocate): "Tasted as a sample in May this year, the 2023 Riesling G-Max is very deep, pure and intense on the nose. Silky, round and finessed on the palate, this is a full-bodied, fresh, very intense and saline, very noble and balanced Riesling that is so generous, smooth and elegant that it nourishes very high expectations. Is this possibly the finest G-Max since the 2019 vintage? The wine will be released in May 2025. Drink: 2030-2060. (10/31/24)"

99 points Anne Krebiehl, MW (Vinous): "The 2023 G Max is from a secret spot of "very old vines on limestone rocks,” says Keller. Reductive smokiness frames the shy nose, which gives just a glimpse of lemon. More air adds a creamy dimension of white peach. The palate also has this gentleness—not obviously creamy, but utterly soothing. It radiates with lively freshness that tingles in the mouth with a barely suppressed energy of lemon zest. Sinking deeper and deeper into stone, it drills down with immense vigor, yet all is calm on the surface. This is a wine that lifts upward but goes relentlessly deep, a wine with two faces, two energies, two equal forces. Drinkers will enjoy the tension between the two. This is pure, gorgeously textured elegance. (Bone-dry) Drink: 2028-2060. (Oct 2024)"