St. Antony Niersteiner Pettenthal Riesling Grosses Gewachs, Rheinhessen, Germany

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The St. Antony 2007 Niersteiner Pettenthal Riesling Grosses Gewachs – weighing in at 12.5% alcohol – features lemon zest, incense, peppermint, lavender, and wood smoke in the nose, with herbal and citrus oil pungency carrying into a palate of concentration but a certain severity and opacity. It finishes without much succulence, but back-handedly makes a good aesthetic case – when contrasted with the “Riesling P.” bottling – for leaving behind somewhat more residual sugar than required to meet the parameters of Grosses Gewachs (and hence of trocken). That said, this site-typical Riesling should have its uses over the next several years.As reported in issue 179, magnate Detlev Meyer purchased the St. Antony winery in 2005, and his new team – headed by young Felix Peters – is also responsible for the wines of Freiherr Heyl zu Herrensheim. Future St. Antony wines will not indicate "Weingut" or estate-bottling on their labels, as the authorities determined that the wines of two estates could not be estate-bottled in the same cellar, even though great pains had been taken to separate them physically in the spacious facility. As this was for years a personal favorite source for dry Riesling, I regret having to report that recent wines have neither re-captured the style that prevailed under the former regime at its best nor as yet succeeded in a clear stylistic statement of their own, which hopefully time will bring. The 2007s here – of which the top Rieslings were harvested in the second week of October – are as a group slightly finer than the 2006s, but then, vintage conditions not to mention the 2006s having been harvested by a team assembled at the last minute would have predicted as much. TNo known U.S. importer

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St. Antony’s 2004 Niersteiner Pettental Riesling Grosses Gewachs presents pungent smoke and citrus zest aromas along with a bright lemony cast that carries over to the sappy, bright, zesty, salty palate. Despite its relatively strident and spare set of flavors, there is also an attractive and ameliorative underlying creaminess of texture. Smoke and wet stone mineral suggestions inform a rather austere but long finish. I’d give this the benefit of the doubt based on past experience with cellaring St. Antony wines, whereas I lacked confidence in this year’s Grosses Gewachs renditions of Orbel or Hipping. No U.S. importer currently.