AP# at Prum does not indicate a different wine. They bottle to order/demand so each bottling of the same wine gets a different AP # but is often supposedly the same wine, just bottled at a different time.
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Schloss Lieser - Graacher Hinmelreich Kabinett 2017
Straw yellow, citrus, peach, apple, fine spices, some honey, dried yellow flowers, mineralic. Fresh and salty, medium body, balanced and long lasting. With potential, can still integrate some sweetness.
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2021 Maximin Grünhaus Abtsberg GG was my first Grünhaus in a while, and maybe my first GG from them. Maybe it’s the power of suggestion, but the familiar verdant shade note from the Prädikat wines was there to make me feel at home, and then the fresh crisp linear salty mineral dry wine expression was all tasty. Certainly delicious, but I didn’t love it. Perhaps this is not the moment for 21s to show their best, or 21 may not have played to the sour-leaning Ruwer style. Either way, I’m still a huge Grünhaus fan but not racing to reacquaint my love with more bottles of this.
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I don’t think most, if any GGs show what they are really about at that age. They can be very tasty, but rarely reveal what’s special about them.
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I don’t know, a '21 Heymann-Lowenstein Roth Lay GG was pretty special a few months ago.
But I get what you’re saying. And Grünhaus is certainly a winery that repays aging.
The nomenclature is different. Maximin Grünhaus changed “Alte Reben trocken” to “GG,” which was part of the rebranding, when the estate rejoined the VDP in 2016. And, starting with the 2008 vintage, “Alte Reben trocken” replaced “Spätlese trocken.”
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Yes, thanks for the reminder. I did drink the Spätlese trocken and Alte Reben trocken wines back in the day, but obviously none since 2016, which tracks.
Grünhaus QbA trocken was the white wine we served at my wedding in 2008, because Grünhaus was my favorite German winery at the time. But I have not kept up!
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A lot has changed at the winery. I haven’t been there in years.
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Another amazing bottle. It’s an extreme wine - someone on CT compared it to the band Slayer - and the crazy high acidity definitely gives off sociopath in the mosh pit vibes. Yet against all odds, this wine finds balance and harmony, but not such overwhelming balance that it losses its (ratherr insane) point of view. Just a delicate hint of overt sweetness to tame the beast and coax out the just ripe peach and tangerine notes. Long and electric finish saturated with salty, chalky minerals over a light frame. This one feels like a divine power made it just for me. Good enough to temporarily suspend my evangelical atheism. Not bad for $23.95.
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Yes, but how do you clean that decanter?
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Little short on glassware. Have extra set from Costco you can have. Universals!
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Lol. There’s more downstairs in the overflow cabinet. We like to entertain.
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I know the question is rhetorical, but it’s easy to clean as long as you as take care of it immediately after emptying it. I just run hot water through it three times. I use it often because the glass is thin, and it warms whites from fridge temperature fairly quickly.
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For my taste the quality has gone down lately. Hard to find the level of the wines from the 90’s
Others have said the same thing. To be fair, I haven’t tasted the last several vintages, so I can’t say whether that’s true or not.
2022 Carl Loewen Herrenberg Kabinett:
This continues to deliver in a big way for me. The fruit is just so pure and vivid, the palate so concentrated, the mouthfeel so silky, and the finish is long and mineral. Brian said the acidity is in the medium to medium plus range, but I think this lands squarely in the high acid realm. The perception of acidity is not dissimilar to the experience of tasting lemonade concentrate. It almost entirely negates the sugar and the wine comes across as essentially dry. For me, this is a better wine than the Clos des Goisses in the picture and I can buy a case for the price of a single bottle.
2018 Max Ferd. Richter Elisenberger Kabinett:
Light weight with acceptable concentration and a strong saline note underneath the lime like fruit. Medium acidity and decent length. It’s refreshing and easy to drink, but nothing about the wine really stands out, which has been my experience with this producer.
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Pulled a Jakob Schneider 22’ Niederhauser Klamm trocken for New Year’s Eve. The wine had that flint, mineral taste with accented fruit and really popped paired with honey Dijon pork chops.
Hoping to get back to Germany soon and do more tastings 
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I don’t think quality is lower. The wines have changed, but they are still fantastic, just different. Still recognizable as Grunhaus for sure.
Could you expand on how the style has changed in your opinion? Thanks.