Another almost forgotten variety, but these vines are 50yo and grown in the Morstein vineyard. The variety was developed particularly for the Rheinhessen in the early 1900’s and needs to be ripe to show impressive flavours.

“Smelling of pink grapefruit and blackcurrant and mint candies, [it] surprises – given the tendency of so many of the nobly sweet wines at this address – with a luscious grapefruit juiciness on a palate of considerable verve. Creamy and subtly oily, with an intense finish akin to sucking on sage, mint, and blackcurrant lozenges and on pink grapefruit zest, this nonetheless evinces a sense of refreshment. It would make a stunning – if no doubt very expensive – accompaniment for certain deserts, as well as making old bones in your cellar, a quarter century or more from now. Keller agrees that “fresh-fruited-ness” is an important aim, even in a concentrated nobly sweet wine, and here he has managed to retain an efficacious measure of it. 94 points, 2008- 2040.” John Gilman.

“Scheurebe wines have their own exuberant, racy flavours of blackcurrants or even rich grapefruit. It is one of the few varietal parvenus countenanced by quality-conscious German wine producers, not just because it can easily reach high Pradikat levels of ripeness, but because these are so delicately counterbalanced with the nerve of acidity—perhaps not quite so much as in an equivalent Riesling—but enough to preserve the wine for many years in bottle. Furthermore, for all its inherent aromatic exuberance, Scheurebe also follows the noble cousin Riesling in reflecting soil and mesoclimate.” Jancisrobinson.com