97+ Bottled in late April 2019, the 2017 Ried Zieregg Sauvignon Blanc offers a deep and coolish, spicy, flinty and herbal, very intense but well-defined and elegant bouquet with interwoven fruit, juniper and stony aromas. Terribly deep and spicy, full-bodied and powerful, with great purity, lingering salinity and mineral tension, this is a dense and powerful, tightly knit and concentrated, phenolic, structured Ziergegg with great aging potential. Tasted in May 2019. - SR

Subtle, nutty smoke precedes gentle, lemon-framed hazelnut on the nose. A note of wet walnut creeps in beautifully. The palate is rounded with ripe stone fruit and vivid with bright citrus: Think lemon and lime. A yeasty edge shows an extra dimension of stony depth. A most lovely, salty, enduring wine that will come into its own with bottle age. Drink 2022–2040. - ANNE KREBIEHL MW