Community Tasting Notes 9

• forceberry wrote: 86 points

  November 15, 2020 - 12,5% alcohol. Tasted blind.
  
  Quite youthful, pale neon lime-green color. Sweetish, youthful nose with aromas of ripe peach, some leesy tones, a little bit of honeysuckle and other floral tones, light creamy notes of custard or something, a hint of wax and a more evolved nuance of wizened golden apple. The wine is quite rich, structured and more evolved on the palate (compared to the youthful nose) with a full body and very ripe flavors of sweet golden apples, some waxy tones, a little bit of stony minerality, light juicy notes of fresh peach and a hint of stony minerality. Although the acidity feels high, lending good sense of freshness and structure to the wine, the noticeable ripeness makes the wine feel somewhat fat and weighty. The finish is lively, juicy and quite long with dry, acid-driven flavors of ripe peach, leesy yeast, some stony mineral tones, a little bit of mealy golden apple, a tangy hint of salinity and a touch of beeswax.
  
  At first the nose doesn't feel like anything remotely Riesling, making people guess Italy, German Pinot Gris and Spanish whites. However, with some air the nose manages to get its game together and suddenly it becomes instantly recognizable as Riesling, making me immediately guess German Riesling. Nevertheless, the wine doesn't feel particularly typical for a German Riesling - especially for the cooler 2013 vintage - and my guess was Rheinhessen. To me, this wine lacks the typical lean characteristic and incisive, steely minerality of a classic Rheingau Riesling. All in all, a quite good effort, but nothing particularly memorable. Most people in the tasting agreed that the wine was somewhat all over the place, so perhaps the wine will come together a bit better if left to age for another handful of years.

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• mreinhard74@gmail.com Likes this wine: 91 points

  May 28, 2019 - Very nice. High acid and abv (for a Riesling). Green grapes and apricot. Tons of sharp fruit. Great pairing with spicy food.

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• mreinhard74@gmail.com Likes this wine: 90 points

  December 10, 2018 - Deep straw color. Late arriving acidicty. Mineral and lemon curd. I like it. Interesting to see if it continues to develop.

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• Omar Khayyam wrote:

  September 12, 2015 - Sortimentsprovning Johan Lidby Vinhandel; 9/10/2015-9/12/2015 (at their office.): this is very unforgiving at first. tight nose, feels like slightly lower acidity and considerably less ripe fruit than the simpler entry level 2014 rieslings from the same producer, but there's some mineral driven complexity with squashed oysters and lemon curd. will it come out of its shell in a few years? I have no idea and my advice is to wait for the high end leitz 2014s to hit the market.

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• Markus IWC wrote: 91 points

  September 7, 2015 - Stort vin med komplexa smaker, härliga citrus toner, gröna äpplen, typisk Riesling av hög kvalitet. Omprovning 160312, bra vin men sänker betyget till 4 stjärnor från 4,5.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2013
• Type White
• Producer Weingut Josef Leitz
• Varietal Riesling
• Designation Großes Gewächs
• Vineyard Rüdesheimer Berg Schloßberg
• Country Germany
• Region Rheingau
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation n/a
• UPC Code 870701001312

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• Pending Delivery 3 (1%)
• In Cellars 104 (48%)
• Consumed 110 (51%)

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