Andrew Jefford | This is another very pale wine, just a green whisper beyond color neutrality. Simple, straightforward green-apple scents, perhaps a whisper of pine, too. Lacks seductive qualities; forceful; some evident sulfur. Rather simple and scruffy on the palate, with sulfur evident. Drinkable, but not a star of the tasting, and with a raw finish. | 80

Anne Krebiechl | Ripe passion fruit on the nose is pervaded by creaminess. Heady fruit notes are tethered by subtle, rounded oak. The palate remains high-toned with citrus and emollient with creaminess. This is pristine, fresh, concentrated, and exciting, if unusual. The finish suggests more passion fruit, frosted peach, and an inescapable, pristine core of lemon brightness. Lovely now, certain to develop. | 93

Stephan Reinhardt | This is another very pale and reductive Scheurebe, but this one is perhaps too reductive, with the infamous pipi-du-chat scent, here intermixed with a hint of oak. This bouquet lacks transparency, purity, and freshness and is all too simple for true aficionados. The attack on the palate is fresh but also sour and green, and the finish is short. My fellow tasters were already gone, but I asked to open another bottle—which was much better on both nose and palate. The nose is bright and clear, ripe and elegant and in a “German” way reductive. On the palate, this a racy, fresh, and greenish, gooseberry-coined Scheu, with a racy-piquant finish and lots of grip. It is, however, sporty rather than elegant. Not fully ripe, perhaps. | 87