93 Points Vinous
As usual, the Turmberg boasts haunting, iris-like bittersweet floral perfume and hints of marine breeze to accompany fragrant imitations of lime, pear and Mirabelle. A silken palate offers juicy fruit profusion with inner-mouth florality and a cooling green herbal infusion. Site-typical, too, is an uncanny animal-mineral savor with a combination of sweetness and salinity reminiscent of raw scallop, though here that savor veers mouthwateringly in the direction of oyster liquor on account of concentrated salinity, deep nutty richness, alkalinity, chalkiness, and positive vegetality. The long finish really stimulates the salivary glands not to mention the taking of another sip. 
 
92 Points Wine Enthusiast
Plumes of ripe peach, apricot and mango are exuberant on the nose, while the fruit profile on the palate is markedly demure, offering crisp but penetrating hits of gooseberry, green plum and lime. It's taut and nervous on the palate, with a firm mineral undertone. While elegant already, this should meld its fruit and mineral intensities after a few years in the cellar. Hold till 2019.
 
Winemaker Note
An intense, yet delicately fine-boned dry Riesling from a singular monopole vineyard site in the Rheingau region.
Wholly owned by Weingut Robert Weil, the Kiedrich Turmberg (“Tower Hill”) vineyard is rated as Erste Lage (“premier cru”) by the prestigious VDP growers association. Because of its thinner topsoil and slate subsoil, it produces very fine, elegant wines that are less massive than their counterparts from the neighboring Gräfenberg site. The Turmberg Riesling Trocken captures the essence of this great vineyard in a food-friendly dry style.