Many consider this the least of H-L’s three single parcel wines from the great Uhlen site, and (as usual) it’s quite funky and closed at this point. In spite of the considerable concentration this is quite a sleek, cool wine. Opens up slowly, and as the funk blows off it grows and grows in complexity.

The 2015 Riesling Uhlen B 'VDP Grosse Lage' from the Blaufüsser Lay offers the purity and perfume of the Vom blauen Schiefer but with more intensity, ripeness and complexity. This is perfectly ripe Riesling fruit on milled blue slate. Lovely flinty flavors here. On the palate, this is Riesling as a melting rock! Finessed purity and elegance with a great, very clear and salty finish. This Uhlen B is tightly woven but nevertheless transparent, finessed and elegant. - Stephan Reinhardt