Silver straw yellow. Open, delicate, cool fruity nose of apricots, yellow apples, firm yellow pears and pomelo. Embedded in delicately spicy yeast flavors. The aromas intensify in the taste. Spicy soft middle. Clear and straightforward. Great acid arc. Great length. Forever slim. Fine muscle play. Profound character that only fully unfolds after decades. The 2020 seems to me particularly classy with an animating sharpness. Truly the father of all great dry German Rieslings. Pure drinking pleasure!

Food recommendation: Chicken fricassee with peas and carrots and wide egg noodles.

Weinberg: Up to 15 different Erste Gewächs sites from the middle and lower Rheingau are combined in a vintage cuvée by privy councilor "J". According to the principle of the first wines from Bordeaux, the first privy councilor "J" was vinified with the 1983 vintage. The internal quality requirements for this wine are still above the standard for Erste Gewächse today. Privy Councilor "J" is only vinified in good to excellent years. In rather weak vintages, such as 1984, 1987 and 1991, there was no privy councilor "J" wine. The wine goes on sale 15 months after the harvest at the earliest.

Terroir: Combination of the minerality of the Rüdesheimer and Geisenheimer mountain locations with the fruitful, deep loess soils of the central Rheingau.