The Frühlingsplätzchen Grosses Gewächs comes from one of the steepest parts of the vineyard, though lower down on the hillside, where the soil is hard red slate and the Fröhlich family’s parcel of vines here is more than fifty years of age. The 2015 version is outstanding, offering up a deep and vibrant bouquet of grapefruit, tart orange, slate, petrol, wild yeasts, lemongrass and plenty of smokiness in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, precise and absolutely rock solid at the core, with superb backend lift and grip, racy acids and laser-like focus on the very long and very classy finish. All this superb wine needs is time in the cellar to fully blossom. (Drink between 2021-2060)

The 2015 Frühlingsplätzchen Riesling GG opens with a fascinating, clear, flinty/smoky and spicy bouquet with great purity, finesse and mineral flavor intermixed with tropical, but extremely discreet, fruit aromas. There is great purity here. On the palate, this is a round, intense, very fruity, but also piquant and salty Riesling with richer fruit and intensity than the Kupfergrube or the Felsenberg. This is a powerful Riesling with a lot of grip and salty minerality. The finish is long, very juicy and aromatic. Tim Fröhlich reports that he has stretched the leaf wall of the vines, which is now more airy, and the grapes are more loose and less compact since 2011/2012. The resulting wine is concentrated, intense and even more complex than in former times. - Stephan Reinhardt