The 2015 Westhofen Riesling Trocken GG Abts E (abbreviated as "Abts E" since Abtserde isn't an official vineyard name) opens very clear, pure, delicate and fresh, but also concentrated (with grapefruit flavors!) and very mineral on the nose. This is a picture-book Riesling from (very active) limestone soils, where the terroir dominates the variety, at least on the nose. On the palate, this is a rich and powerful, silky textured, juicy and yet still concentrated and tightly woven wine. It has great intensity and minerality of stones, rocks and salt. It needs a lot of time to receive the finesse and purity of the mind-blowing Morstein, though.

DRINK DATE
2017 - 2030
The nose of the AbtsE(rde) offers a fascinating composition of almost perfumed fruit and earthy minerality. If my gustatory facilities did not deceive me, the AbtsE is a little softer and sweeter than its stable mates, even dabbling in exotic territory with a fresh notion of passion fruit. Ripe gooseberry and stony apricot complete the fruit flavour. At the same time the wine never loses grip and finishes on an intriguing combination of flint stone, kernel and the merest notion of crushed coffee beans.