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White - Off-dry
2011 Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spätlese #5
Riesling
- Germany
- Mosel Saar Ruwer
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Community Tasting Notes 18
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drwine2001 wrote:
September 6, 2023 - Mosel Producer Visits-Mostly 2022 Riesling; 9/6/2023-9/7/2023: Full yellow. Flowers and honey. Moderately sweet. Yellow peach, moderate acidity, light soil finish. Open and really good.
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EhrlichDY wrote:
June 18, 2023 - Lush and bordering on Auslese weight and sweetness. Still it's just plain delicious with plenty of citrus and acid notes to make it work. Amazing mouth coating texture. I imagine these will get better from here.
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Dale M wrote: 93 points
January 22, 2023 - My last bottle was in 2014 and without looking at my note, I remember vividly that liked it, but didn’t love it. Acidity was / is pretty low, and it just felt a bit chubby. Well like a teenager, it clearly has had a growth spurt over the last 9 years. The sweetness seems to have receded, allowing the wines non acidic structural elements to come to the forefront such as a gravelly texture and flint notes. Add the trademark purity of fruit (I get a lot of pineapple) that WS is known for and we have a real winner on our hands. For me, this is ready to go and should hold well for as long as you want to keep it.
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Montesquieu Likes this wine: 93 points
September 11, 2022 - My final bottle of six. For the $38 paid, this wine delivers so much more beauty, complexity, and intrigue than the vast majority of options from any varietal. 70% of youthful tension has now receded. It's rounding the corner toward smooth, oily, mouth-coating beauty. It'll further improve with time, but if you have multiple bottles, enjoy one or more now.
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salil wrote: 92 points
March 12, 2020 - Hasn't budged much. Very much like my notes from 7 years ago - still quite rich and luscious with lots of bright fruit, but a finesse and elegance that I expect from Schaefer. Still very primary though, showing no real development yet.
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Pro Reviews 6
Add a Pro ReviewMosel Fine Wines
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By Jean Fisch and David Rayer
Maturing Mosel: 10 years after retrospective of 2011, Issue #56, 4/1/2021 (link)(Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spätlese #05) Subscribe to see review text.
Vinous
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By Joel B. Payne
January/February 2013, IWC Issue #166 (link)(Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spatlese #5) Subscribe to see review text.
Mosel Fine Wines
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By Jean Fisch and David Rayer
Vintage Report 2011, Review by Estate - Part I, Issue #19, 7/1/2012 (link)(Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spätlese #05) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Julia Harding, MW
6/19/2012 (link)(Willi Schaefer, Graacher Domprobst Nr 5 Riesling Spätlese Mosel White) Subscribe to see review text.
View From the Cellar
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By John Gilman
Mar/Apr 2012, Issue #38, The 2011 German Vintage: A Very, Very Fine and Much More Laid Back Vintage Follows on the Heels Of the High Wire Act of the 2010ers(Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spätlese AP #5- Weingut Willi Schaefer) Subscribe to see review text.
Terry Theise Estate Selections
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By Terry Theise
2012 German Catalog, 6/1/2012 (link)(Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spätlese #5) ($46.00) A little botrytis now, contributing to a truly celestial fragrance; here the whole thing goes incandescent, as the fruit goes all tantra upside the mineral; it is getting terribly hard to spit these. The pointillist detailing of the dialogue of elements is so tender and pure, it seems to cleanse the very world. ***
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2011
- Type White - Off-dry
- Producer Willi Schaefer
- Varietal Riesling
- Designation Spätlese #5
- Vineyard Graacher Domprobst
- Country Germany
- Region Mosel Saar Ruwer
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation n/a
- UPC Code 747736383570
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 14 (4%)
- In Cellars 246 (69%)
- Consumed 99 (28%)
Food Pairing
No food pairings available.
Who Likes This Wine
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- ProducerWilli Schaefer
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- VineyardGraacher Domprobst
- CountryGermany
- RegionMosel Saar Ruwer
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