Klaus-siege

At my place.
Tasted Thursday, August 15, 2013 by drbarta with 313 views

Introduction

My favorite dry white wine is the Prager Riesling Smaragd Klaus. I regularly test if this fact is still true by making spectular rows with one vintage of it and with some worthy challengers. This time I chose all 2011-er top class german and wachauer dry rieslings. Tasted blind.

Flight 1 (6 Notes)

  • 2011 Dr. Bürklin-Wolf Forster Pechstein Riesling 92 Points

    Germany, Pfalz

    Deep nose with cool citrus and hard-stone minerality. Later it become more colourful with some peach and slight tropical notes. Medium body, lots of muscle, rather mineral driven flavours. Dense midpalate, tight, steely acidity, good focus, long finish. Feels bone-dry but absolutely balanced and drinkable.

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  • 2011 Wittmann Westhofener Brunnenhauschen Riesling Großes Gewächs 89 Points

    Germany, Rheinhessen

    Citrus, yellow fruits, herbal notes, some chalkiness. Medium-plus body. Good savour-intensity, but I admit I expected more depth of this wine. Also good, but not outstandig structural density. Anyway well balanced, polished and rounded, could have more power and tension.

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  • 2011 Van Volxem Scharzhofberger Riesling Pergentsknopp 92 Points

    Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer

    Appealing nose with a whole basket of fruits and deep slatey minerality. Full bodied with fine creaminess in the texture. Ripe, thick flavours with well detectable residual sugar sweetness. Dense, serious midpalate accompanied by lots of weighty acidity, impressive, long finish. Profound, delicate and rounded wine.

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  • 2011 Franz Hirtzberger Riesling Smaragd Singerriedel 94 Points

    Austria, Niederösterreich, Wachau

    Standard "riesling" nose with lots of citrus, refined mineral character, but it promises huge craft. And so has it. Full bodied with flooding fruits, dense, mineral core, full with material. Beatifully focused with precise acidity, performing new and new impulses, very-very long finish.

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  • 2011 Prager Riesling Smaragd Klaus 94 Points

    Austria, Niederösterreich, Wachau

    Extreme depth again, even a little bit more appealing than the previous one with more tropical tones. In mouth absolutely bombastic. Overwhelming fruity-mineral layers, tons of structure, focus, concentration, endless finish.

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  • 2011 Schäfer-Fröhlich Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Großes Gewächs 91 Points

    Germany, Nahe

    At first quite muggy nose. Sulphiric? Reduction? Yeasty? Something like that, by aeration it reduces but never completely disappears during the night. Anyway there are lots of cool, crispy citrus as well and slatey minerality. In mouth it's really nice. Full with juicy fruits, freshness, delivers lots of tension, electricity. Structurally dense, muscular, focussed, acidity is precise like razor. Spectacular one, but had a hard time after the previous 2 wines.

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