Kühling-Gillot Riesling Niersteiner Pettenthal Grosses Gewächs 2023

99 points Stuart Pigott (JamesSuckling.com): "The complex flint and smoke expression of this wine is off the scale. And you can say the same about the balance of stony vibrancy and restrained richness on the extremely concentrated palate. The Amalfi lemon intensity and filigree at the finish are also off the scale. So refreshing you feel like you’ve been thrown into a mountain pool fed by glaciers. From organically grown grapes. Best after 2025. (8/20/24)"

97 points Anne Krebiehl, MW (Vinous): "The 2023 Riesling Niersteiner Pettenthal Grosses Gewächs blends flinty reduction with orange peel and crushed yarrow. The palate is superbly zesty, alive and energetic, tingling with tangerine and orange but also with that stony, salty herbal savor. It’s beautifully dynamic, driving purposefully forward. Like a shot in the arm, it’s so precise, stony and vivid on the finish. (Bone-dry) Drink: 2028-2060. (Oct 2024)"

96 points Stephan Reinhardt (Wine Advocate): "The 2023 Nierstein Pettenthal GG opens another chapter in the context of KG. The Pettenthal is very intense yet pure and, in a nice way, reductive on the nose that is provided with concentrated and spicy fruit intertwined with flinty and iodine notes of crushed stones. Rich and intense but always elegant on the palate, this is a dense, savory and stimulating, very complex and finely tannic Riesling that deserves our patience. It's remarkably frisky on the finish, subtly intense and thus very long. 12.5% stated alcohol. Diam cork. Tasted at the domaine in August 2024. Drink: 2024-2050. (10/31/24)"

95+ points Ulrich Sautter (Falstaff): "The normally demanding aromas of the site, which can be reminiscent of smouldering car tyres, are elegantly captured here. Tautly built, reduced on the palate to the essentials of what makes great Riesling: drive, minerality, length and the secret of the site. Alcohol 12.5%. (11/11/24)"