Tesch Königsschild Riesling 2023

Powerful lime aroma, and an energy that makes this leap joyfully across your palate. Then, as the air starts to work on this, a whole fruit salad of aromas on the medium-bodied palate. Then the lime freshness gently builds again to a serious statement in the finish. Drink or hold. Screw cap. -Stuart Pigott, Senior Editor. 

The 2023 Riesling Trocken Langenlonsheimer Königsschild is pure yet also intense and reveals a fine mineral core wrapped by precise, fresh and elegant apricot aromas. Very elegant and refined on the first palate, this is a round and juicy yet crystalline and mineral Königsschild, whose limestone soils mixed with loess and loam managed the vintage very well, even in the rainier last third of the vegetation period. The wine comes in with 13% stated alcohol but is light-footed, fine and stimulating, with a long and expressive finish. This is never fat and never rich in texture but an intense and pure Riesling from Langenlonsheim. It's probably the finest Königsschild in Martin Tesch's career. Screw-cap closure. Tasted in September 2024. - Stephan Reinhardt. 

The 2023 Riesling Königsschild is a fully south-facing site of light, calcareous loess. Crushed citrus foliage and pale lemon skin set the tone on the nose. The palate follows suit with fine, lemonscented freshness, super-light and vividly bright. This is the slenderest Riesling of the portfolio, citrus-focused and lip-smacking. (Bone-dry)