The 2022 Riesling Heiligenstein Alte Reben is from vines planted in 1923, as well as other old vines with an average of 65 years of age. It was fermented and aged in one large, neutral 2,500-liter barrel, where it stayed for two winters. The nose is still reduced and has a little yeasty funk. Immediate fluidity and concentration define the palate. Smokiness follows a vein of deepest citrus notions, of citrus oil rather than fresh fruit, smooth, gliding, elongated and essence-like, running along hard stone. This wine of rock and soil should not be touched in the coming ten years. The 2022 is exquisite, stony, linear, strait-laced and eternal. (Bone-dry)(AK)