The 2017 Domprobst Sp?tlese AP #10 is a superb wine in the making, but like all of the wines here in this vintage, a bit of cellaring is going to be very richly rewarded. The bouquet wafts from the glass in a nascently complex constellation of apple, pear, a fine base of slat, orange zest, a touch of iris blossom and citrus flowers in the upper register. On the palate the wine is pure, medium-full and shows lovely fruit on the attack, with a fine core, racy acids and a long, mineral-driven and snappy finish. This will be outstanding when it has started to show some secondary layers of complexity. It will be drinkable earlier, but I would try to leave this alone in the cellar for seven or eight years before drinking it in earnest, as there is an awful lot here lying below the surface

John Gilman - John Gilman (94)