There was significant botrytis and Herr Fischer likens the vintage to 1976. Lots of apricots and cassis in the young wines. Quality is far above average, again the best of the three vintages. Very concentrated wines, with fine botrytis and great acids to balance. Hanno Zilliken compares his 1990s to his 1971 wines.
Wines have very high extract that buffer the very high acids in the finished wines.
Again 1990 is the best of the three vintages. Average mustweight close to 90 chsle with a TBA harvested at 180 chsle. Again a fabulous vintage for Bert Simon which may be as good as his great 1989 vintage. An interesting study was made at von Simmern to compare costs of machine harvesting to hand selection. More concentrated wines than 1989.