Keller Riesling Niersteiner Hipping Grosses Gewächs 2013

95 points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 2013 Hipping Grosses Gewächs from Weingut Keller came in at twelve percent alcohol, with just over three grams per liter of residual sugar in acids in the low nines. It is a breathtakingly beautiful and elegant young wine, wafting from the glass in a mélange of white peach, tangerine, bee pollen, lemon blossoms, slate, citrus peel and a touch of lemongrass in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and beautifully filigreed, with a stunning core of fruit, laser-like focus, ripe, perfectly buffered acids and magical length and grip on the nascently complex and supremely elegant finish. A brilliant wine in the making! 2023-2060. (Mar/Apr 2014)"

93-94 points Stephan Reinhardt (Wine Advocate): "Straw yellow in color with green reflections the 2013 Nierstein Hipping Riesling trocken GG shows a super clear, deep, intense yet precise, pure, and elegant bouquet of spicy earthy flavors (wet red argillaceous shale) along with refreshingly perfumed citrus, ripe apple and dextrose flavors and a hint of tobacco leafs. The palate is lovely: juicy, intense, round and elegant with very precise, concentrated and lingering salinity. This full-bodied wine ended up with 12.5 % of alcohol and 4.6 grams of sugar and has everything a classic, wood-fermented Riesling of the highest quality has to have, namely finesse, piquancy, purity and a lovely stimulating finish. This is an excellent to great, rich, piquant and juicy Riesling from the red slope with finesse and expression. Drink: 2017-2023. (Oct 2014)"