“This dry riesling is juicy and well structured, with complex fruit salad and mint aromas filling out the focused, medium-bodied palate. Although this vintage has the reputation of being tart, the harmony in the finish is already stunning. In spite of the restrained creaminess on the mid-palate, there\u2019s not a hint of fat. In fact, it\u2019s super clean. Drink now.”
94 | S. Pigott | www.jamessuckling.com<\/b><\/p>\n2023 K\u00f6nigsschild Riesling trocken<\/h1>\n
\u201cPowerful lime aroma, and an energy that makes this leap joyfully across your palate. Then, as the air starts to work on this, a whole fruit salad of aromas on the medium-bodied palate. Then the lime freshness gently builds again to a serious statement in the finish. Drink or hold.\u201d
\n95 Punkte | jamessuckling.com | S. Pigott<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThe 2023 Riesling Trocken Langenlonsheimer K\u00f6nigsschild is pure yet also intense and reveals a fine mineral core wrapped by precise, fresh and elegant apricot aromas. Very elegant and refined on the first palate, this is a round and juicy yet crystalline and mineral K\u00f6nigsschild, whose limestone soils mixed with loess and loam managed the vintage very well, even in the rainier last third of the vegetation period. The wine comes in with 13% stated alcohol but is light-footed, fine and stimulating, with a long and expressive finish. This is never fat and never rich in texture but an intense and pure Riesling from Langenlonsheim. It’s probably the finest K\u00f6nigsschild in Martin Tesch’s career. Screw-cap closure. Tasted in September 2024.\u201d
\n94 Punkte | www.robertparker.com | S. Reinhardt<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThe K\u00f6nigsschild shows finesse with grapefruit aromas and flavors, a medium-weight body, and overall roundness, but it also has a structure typical of limestone soils. Screw cap closure. 13.0% stated alcohol.\u201d
\n92+ Punkte | Fine Wine Review | C. Kolm<\/b><\/p>\n
“The 2023 Riesling K\u00f6nigsschild is a fully south-facing site of light, calcareous loess. Crushed citrus foliage and pale lemon skin set the tone on the nose. The palate follows suit with fine, lemon-scented freshness, super-light and vividly bright. This is the slenderest Riesling of the portfolio, citrus-focused and lip-smacking. (Bone-dry)”
\n92 Punkte | www.vinous.com | A. Krebiehl<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cFull screwcapped bottle just 1,161 g. Deep-rooted vines on limestone with loess and alluvial loam. Turquoise capsule. Distinctly floral nose. Less flamboyant than the Krone with delicacy and some more to give. Real limestone lift and sappiness. Less fruit and more mineral than some of its stablemates. The acidity is still quite marked but there is no concern that it won’t deliver eventually. Still slightly astringent.\u201d
\n17.0 Punkte | jancisrobinson.com | J. Robinson<\/b><\/p>\n2022 K\u00f6nigsschild Riesling trocken<\/h1>\n
“The 2022 K\u00f6nigsschild Langenlonsheimer Riesling trocken opens with a pure and intense yet still slightly untamed (reductive) bouquet of ripe and well-concentrated fruits cultivated on limestone soils mixed with loess-loam. Mouth-filling and lush yet also tight and structured on the medium to full-weighted body, this is a quite complex and promising dry Nahe Riesling with a stringent but also saline and refreshing citrusy finish. It has very good length. 12% stated alcohol. Stelvin screw cap. Tasted in October 2023.” 92+ | S. Reinhardt | www.robertparker.com<\/b><\/p>\n
“Der K\u00f6nigsschild von Tesch ist mittelschwer mit einem kr\u00e4ftigen, leicht s\u00e4urebetonten Auftakt mit Grapefruit- und anderen Zitrusaromen sowie starker Konzentration und Dichte. Dieser Wein stammt von Kalksteinb\u00f6den und ist normalerweise mein Favorit unter den Tesch-Weinen, auch wenn dies auf den 2022er im Moment noch nicht zutrifft. 12,0% Alkohol.” 92\/A | C. Kolm | TheFineWineReview<\/b><\/p>\n
“So spritzig und energisch, dass es einem den Atem raubt. Messerscharfe S\u00e4ure und Zitronenschalenfrische, aber auch jede Menge Frucht. Sehr aufregender langer und geradliniger Abgang.” 94 | S. Pigott | www.jamessuckling.com<\/b><\/p>\n2021 K\u00f6nigsschild Riesling trocken<\/h1>\n
\u201cThe 2021 Riesling K\u00f6nigsschild opens with a pure, intense yet subtle and floral\/stony bouquet with still slightly reductive notes of crushed stones and ripe lemons. Precise and lush on the palate, this is an elegant, refined and linear, tight, fine-meshed and persistently saline dry Riesling with crunchy phenols on the stimulatingly bitter finish. This is an excellent dry Riesling from loess. 12.5% stated alcohol.\u201d 93 | S. Reinhardt | www.robertparker.com<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cDer K\u00f6nigsschild ist mein st\u00e4ndiger Favorit unter den Weinen von Tesch. Es ist ein reiner, konzentrierter, pr\u00e4ziser Wein mit Tiefe und Kalkmineralit\u00e4t. Er ist mittelschwer, mit guter Konzentration und S\u00e4ure, die pr\u00e4sent, aber gut integriert und nicht dominant ist. Kalksteinb\u00f6den mit Muschelschalen unter L\u00f6ss. Schraubverschluss. 12,5% Alkohol.\u201d 95\/A+ | C. Kolm | TheFineWineReview<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cDieser Wein zeichnet sich durch ein wunderbares Zusammenspiel von reifen und frischen Komponenten aus, die ihn trotz der beachtlichen Intensit\u00e4t leichtf\u00fc\u00dfig machen. Lebendig und leicht macht er Lust auf das Leben. So viel knackige Birne und Pomelo mit einem zarten floralen Touch. Langer, sehr eleganter Abgang mit einer Mineralit\u00e4t von Austernschalen.\u201d 94 | S. Pigott | www.jamessuckling.com<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cFlasche inklusive Schraubverschluss nur 1.117 g. Hocht\u00f6nig mit einem Aroma von schwarzen Johannisbeerbl\u00e4ttern. Gute Balance zwischen Frucht, S\u00e4ure und Extrakt mit einem langen Abgang und etwas Granny-Smith-Apfel-Aroma. \u00c4u\u00dferst erfrischend. Kein Grund zur Eile den Wein jung zu trinken.12,5% | Trinkzeit 2022-2029\u201d 16.5+\/20 | J. Robinson | www.jancisrobinson.com<\/b><\/p>\n2020 K\u00f6nigsschild Riesling trocken<\/h1>\n
Tesch’s 2020 Riesling K\u00f6nigsschild offers a clear and delicate as well as elegant bouquet of ripe yellow fruits intertwined with almond or nutty aromas. Round, lush and elegant on the palate, this full-bodied K\u00f6nigsschild develops a certain power structured by serious phenols, mineral grip and fine salinity. For Tesch, this is an unusually rich and forceful Riesling. 13% alcohol.
\n92 | robertparker.com \u2013 The Wine Advocate \u2013 Stephan Reinhardt<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n
So much youthful energy is married to a fruit cocktail of aromas that no mixologist could match. The wonder is that this is super-cool for the warm vintage, with so much drive and precision at the explosive finish. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
\n95 | jamessuckling.com \u2013 Stuart Pigott<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n
Limestone soils with seashell under loess. It\u2019s a homogenous vineyard and did not undergo stress in 2020. Floral, round notes in nose along with some allspice. Slightly rounder in the mouth than the 2019, but similar with citric fruits, some floral notes, and again the allspice. Gentle acidity provides liveliness but does not interfere with the finesse and clarity in the wine. This is a thrilling, electric wine with precision, salinity, and energy. This is the wine with the most finesse and as in 2019, my favorite of the collection.
\n95\/A+ | TheFineWineReview \u2013 Claude Kolm <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n
This has the most to it, with some charm already but hints at the greatest hidden depths. It’s not as ethereal as St Remigiusberg 2020 but is fine boned (despite the alcohol) and seemed to recall most strongly the structure of a Grosse Gew\u00e4chs.
\n17 | jancisrobinson.com \u2013 Jancis Robinson MW<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n2019 K\u00f6nigsschild Riesling trocken<\/h1>\n
The Langenlonsheimer 2019 Riesling K\u00f6nigsschild is fruity and savory up front on the nose that represents the limestone terroir mixed with loess and loam as well as fully ripe and aromatic yet precise and coolish fruit with lime rind, grapefruit, tea and floral aromas. Round and intense on the palate, with a dense and concentrated texture, this is a full-bodied yet compact, filigreed and finely racy K\u00f6nigsschild with tight, lingering mineral freshness and good power and structure. The wine has improved enormously since the sample I tasted in early May. Luckily, I had it again in early August 2020.
\n92 | ROBERT PARKER \u2013 The Wine Advocate \u2013 Stephan Reinhardt<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Some people are frightened of dry riesling, because they think the acidity will bite, but this is so generous (plenty of fruit-salad aromas) and, although it’s decisively dry, there’s nothing even vaguely resembling a sharp edge. Substantial, pithy finish. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
\n93 | JAMESUCKLING.COM \u2013 Stuart Pigott<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
More fragrant than the Unplugged and, in 2019, I’m not sure it qualifies as ‘elegant’, so much fruit and extract are crammed in here. This single-vineyard wine is a great buy for under \u20ac15. There is real breadth on the front palate and then it tightens up thrillingly so that it seems to have a long life ahead. Much longer than one would expect of a wine at this price. Vibrates on the finish.
\n16.5 pts. | JANCISROBINSON.COM \u2013 Reviewed by Jancis Robinson MW<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n2018 K\u00f6nigsschild Riesling trocken<\/h1>\n
From limestone soils mixed with loess and loam, Tesch’s 2018 K\u00f6nigsschild Riesling Trocken (AP 10 19) offers a clear, fresh and lemon-scented bouquet that indicates lovely purity and character. Fullbodied, lush and intense, with grip and good freshness, this is a clear, fresh and powerful dry Riesling with some bitters on the finish. The 2018 K\u00f6nigsschild lacks the concentration, tension and length of the 2017, though, and it also doesn’t have the purity and tightly woven length of the new Riesling Trocken. Tasted in August 2019.Drinking Date 2020-2026.
\n88 | ROBERT PARKER \u2013 The Wine Advocate \u2013 Stephan Reinhardt<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
The Langenlosenheimer K\u00f6nigsschild goes to the level of exciting. From chalk, limestone, and loam soils, this wine is light, elegant, precise with lime and other citric fruits. Last digits of A.P. Nr. 10 19. 13.0% stated alcohol.
\n93\/A | THE FINE WINE REVIEW – Claude Kolm<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
This is the wine in the Tesch range of single-vineyard, colour-differentiated Rieslings that is in brilliant turquoise. Grown on the ‘King’s Shield’ vineyard south of the L\u00f6hrer Berg on limestone with loess and loam. Particularly deep-rooted vines. There is half a per cent more alcohol in this wine than in the rest of the range according to the label but it smells and tastes distinctly ethereal. And bone dry too. This is a bit of a ballet dancer \u2013 lissom Riesling. The opposite of pushy. It might well benefit from a little bottle age. 13% | Drink 2020 \u2013 2026.
\n16.5+ pts. | JANCISROBINSON.COM \u2013 Reviewed by Jancis Robinson MW<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n2017 K\u00f6nigsschild Riesling trocken<\/h1>\n
From limestone soils mixed with loess and loam, Tesch’s 2017 K\u00f6nigsschild Riesling Trocken is very clear and elegant on the fine, pure and fresh, floral\/herbal as well as yeasty nose. Round and fruity on the palate, this is a rather refined and delicate dry Riesling with round and lush, ripe fruit and a finely nervy minerality. The K\u00f6nigsschild is less tight and tensioned than the L\u00f6hrer Berg, but it’s a more frisky and filigreed type of Riesling. It’s very elegant and pure and perhaps a more feminine type with remarkable balance and a delicate finish. 12.5% alcohol. Bottled under screwcap. Tasted at the domain in July and at home in August 2019 (AP 06 18). | Drinking Date 2019 -2030.
\n89 | ROBERT PARKER \u2013 The Wine Advocate \u2013 Stephan Reinhardt<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Not a blockbuster, but a perfect example of a fine dry Riesling, this is seductive, delivering elegance and a silky texture, showing harmony between ripe orchard fruit and mineral notes, with a vibrant structure and good complexity. Long, lip-smacking finish.
\n91\/100 | Wine Spectator<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Whispers of smoke and crushed mineral lend nuance to bristling lemon and lime flavors in this dry, yet lusciously textured Riesling. Its fruit profile is fresh and forward yet it’s a steely, vibrantly mineral wine too.
\n92\/100 |Wine Enthusiast<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Another impressive wine from this bone-dry riesling specialist. Still a little shy and funky on the nose, but there\u2019s a very satisfying balance of fresh fruit-salad and elegant acidity on the palate. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
\n92 | JAMESUCKLING.COM \u2013 Stuart Pigott<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Brilliant turquoise for the King\u2019s Shield vineyard on a mix of limestone, loess and alluvial loam. The vines here have particularly deep roots. Creamy, almond nose \u2013 rather subtle. Then a great wham of fruit on the palate. Very dense and explosive. Quite a showy wine compared with the Krone. Lots to chew on here; a little more astringent than some. This would partner food well. Charcuterie? Very long. Drink: 2018-2023.
\n17 pts. | JANCISROBINSON.COM \u2013 Reviewed by Jancis Robinson MW<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n2016 K\u00f6nigsschild Riesling trocken<\/h1>\n
From pure loess-loam, calcareous soils in Langenlonsheim, the 2016 Nahe Riesling K\u00f6nigsschild Trocken opens with a clear, intense, fresh, aromatic and yeasty nose with aromas of citrus fruits (oranges) and green apples. Lean yet round, fresh and very elegant on the palate, this is a stunningly pure, mineral, tightly woven, finessed and transparent Riesling with a stimulatingly salty, piquant finish.
\n90 | ROBERT PARKER \u2013 The Wine Advocate \u2013 Stephan Reinhardt<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
The most immediately appealing of Martin Tesch’s 2016 single vineyard dry rieslings this smells and tastes like a great fruit salad, but without any hint of sweetness. Then the powerful chalky finish comes through and shows you who\u2019s boss. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
\n93 | JAMESUCKLING.COM \u2013 Stuart Pigott<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Deep rooted vines on calcareous soils with loess and river loam. Floral, frisky, flirtatious notes on the nose. Round and floral on the palate. Less precise than some of its stablemates.
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