Even richer wine than the 2016 riesling Smaragd from the great Klaus site. Sleek for 14% alcohol with enormous depth and concentration, but also a minty note and great candied lemon and mineral freshness at the long finish. Drink now and for many years to come.

(WA94-95 points) The 2015 Riesling Smaragd Klaus displays a cool, precise and extremely flinty bouquet of white-fleshed stone fruits. Intense and rich on the palate, this is an elegant, dense and tightly woven wine with great concentration, grip and expression. Powerful, but still elegant and rather lean, this wine will shine in 10 years. Great elegance and mineral expression. - Stephan Reinhardt

There is plenty of substance to this dense, plush white, which is beautifully balanced, with peach, elderflower, apple and spice flavors holding court, and an underlying accent of stone. Long, complex finish. Drink now through 2023. 583 cases made.–BS