Influenced by the vintage botrytis characteristics, but better than Hubacker. Not as fresh/good as Kirchspiel, though.
The Morstein is the best of the Keller lineup in 2006, IMO
I liked the G-Max 2006 in 2011 (17/20) and the Westhofen Brunnenhäuschen Riesling Trocken Abts E®. de GG 2006 in 2017 (17/20).
Botrytis influence in both case (same for many french wines : Trimbach for example).
NO I would not compare Von der Fels with G max
IMO AbtsErde (first vintage) Morstein and G Max were brilliant in 2006. In fact I believe they were some of the very best german dry wines
I had both G-Max and Morstein (not Abts-€) 2006 in about 2012 - and I prefered G-Max slightly, imo, however both really great wines.
Kirchspiel is delicious, but not on that high level.
I actually really appreciated the comparison, because the enormous price difference between the vdF and the other dry wines mentioned in this thread has always caused me to shy away from the less expensive. In my head I always figured if there is a 10x price difference (or more in the case of the GMax!) between the wines that there must be some kind of extreme difference in the fruit, style, wine quality, etc that the market has recognized. to see that the vdF can compare favorably sometimes is good to know!
We had massive problems with Riesling oxidising in Australia in the '90’s. Almost on mass, all producers switched to screwcap between 2001 and 2004. No oxidation since. No Umm…no’s about it.
That does not mean Germany and Austria had issues. I open tons of aged Riesling every year. Other than random poor corks there is not an oxidation issue with German or Austrian Riesling. TCA is another matter!
I was fortunate to visit Heymann Lowenstein in 2018 when they were doing a tasting of 2008s that were bottled under both screw cap and cork. It was a great comparison because other than closure they were the same wine and both had been stored at the winery since bottling. Both were great wines but very different. The screw cap showed very little evolution where as the cork was just hitting that point when an older perfectly stored dry Riesling starts to show many different characteristics.