Extraordinary Tasting of Wines from the 2008 German Wine Auctions

Dee Vine Wines, San Francisco
Tasted Saturday, October 11, 2008 by drwine2001 with 879 views

Introduction

One of the events I most anticipate each year is this extraordinary tasting put on by this great importer of German wine. The chance to taste the "creme de la creme" of German wines is just fantastic. Apart from the palate fatigue caused by all of the acid and sugar, the only other challenge was sequencing which sometimes made you jump back and forth between wines of different weights and residual sugar, so nibbbling and/or drinking water between tastes were important to avoid the effects of palate conditioning. I've noted the wines in the order in which they were served.

Flight 1 - One Measly Red (1 Note)

Flight 2 - A Couple of Kabinetts (2 Notes)

Flight 3 - Spatlesen (13 Notes)

Flight 4 - Auslesen (15 Notes)

Flight 5 - And a Sticky for the Road (1 Note)

Closing

Once again, 2007 showed itself to be a vintage of variable acidity, but not generally extraordinarily high. The fact that my teeth still have some enamel after this marathon affair attests to that fact! Nonetheless, the acidity was better than in the '06s tasted, and very few of the wines were grossly out of balance. Perhaps there were not that many truly great wines, but I thought 9 of the wines were at least outstanding, and the top wines of Grans Fassian and Loosen could take their rightful place in a line up of great German wines from just about any vintage.

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