2022 EMT Riesling Q.b.A. trocken (Auction)

The awesome 2022 Riesling EMT (VDP.Versteigerung 2023) is from the Ur-plot of Wagner's Heerkretz. It starts off intense and pure but still pretty reductive and untamed on the nose, which indicates fully ripe and carefully selected fruit intermingled with saline notes. Lush and generous yet also remarkably refined and lively on the palate, this is a full-bodied, pure and mineral, enormously saline and "rocky" Heerkretz deluxe that is richer and drier than the GG and a mouthfilling, hedonistic Riesling from a great terroir. The finish is spectacularly long and saline but, for those who bought it at auction, the 2022 should be cellared for at least another 7 years or so. However, as splendid as the EMT is or as promising the GG, I have always wondered if the combination of the two would be the most complete or most authentic wine. 12.5% stated alcohol. Diam cork. Tasted in January 2024. The elevated price is the result of last year's auction in Bad Kreuznach.