The restrained stone fruit nose leads you into a wine that’s quite a bit firmer and more serious than it suggests. Impressive structure in which the stony minerality and fine tannins are neatly interlocked. Complex citrus character at the impressively long finish. From biodynamically grown grapes. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold.

(93+ points) The 2022 Forster Ungeheuer Riesling GG opens with a deep, fine but intense bouquet of ripe fruits intertwined with iodine notes that add complexity and richness and reduces the "just fruitiness" impressively. This Ungeheuer is already salivating on the nose. Savory, fresh and astringent at this early stage, with fine acidity and coolish, elegant fruit, this is a young and challenging Riesling with power and drying edges on the pretty phenolic finish. Apparently, this Ungeheuer (literally: monster) still has not found its balance, in contrast to the nasal impression. Keep it a few years before opening it. It's rich, long, salivating and saline and provided with refreshing lime bitters. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in July 2024. - Stephan Reinhardt

The 2022 Riesling Forster Ungeheuer Grosses Gewächs was harvested on limestone debris, basalt, clay and loam. Bassermann-Jordan has three parcels, two in the lower reaches and one at the top. The nose is shy, but the palate opens with lemony creaminess, less yeasty and salty than its siblings. The midpalate has subtle concentration, lightness and flow, finishing with gentle lemon. (Bone-dry) -- Anne Krebiehl MW