I have a few so I took one for a spin. Perhaps foolishly. This wine will outlive me.
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2021 Weingut Günther Steinmetz Dhroner Grosser Hengelberg Riesling Monopollage Reserve - Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer (6/26/2023)
The level of coiled concentration and intensity here is nuts. This wine needs years to unwind. So much extract. There's a cool orchard fruit that is living beneath layers of cracking acidity and energy. A serious wine that is really not ready to show its true class. Super stuff. Could deserve its 99 points one day :sunglasses:
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His yields are regularly uncommonly low, but in 2021 were ridiculously low. Like 12hl/ha, or something like that.
The 2021s are amazing amazing to me.
Glad that you got to take a peek, Dennis.
Several of the 2022 GGs that I tasted two weeks ago were knockouts as well, very similar qualitatively…his wines are wildly undervalued, I feel.
My disclaimer/advertisement: i am one of his US importers.
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Thanks, Robert! 
I wish I had a better handle on the real impact of yields that low. I get it, in generally, but I lose a bit of context.
Riesling as a variety is regulalrly cropped higher than many/most grape varieities.
For the best artisanal growers, yields of 35/40 hl/ha would be considered quite low.
For many great growers and specific bottlings, it can go up to 60ish hl/ha.
Single digits and teens of hl/ha is unheard of, except in catastrophic weather/vintages.
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This is the context I was seeking. Thanks.
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