Community Tasting Notes 6

• ovenmitt wrote: flawed

  April 18, 2024 - Super! Apricots, canned peaches, straw in the barn, and a hint of petrol. Peaches, dried apricots and candied lemon tastes. Super balance, with good supporting acid and clean pure finish that goes a long time. Can age another ten, at least.

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• salil wrote: 96 points

  March 31, 2024 - Opened many decades too early, because I saw a raised capsule and slightly raised cork and worried this may be a leaker. Silly me, this wine will almost certainly outlive me. This is a jawdroppingly beautiful Auslese. Incredibly clear, fresh fruit tinged with bright floral notes, and lighter honeyed and faintly herbal accents, so complex and fresh, with a round, silky texture and lifted by bright acids. Impeccable balance. The sense of purity and clarity here are amazing - whatever botrytis is here is incredibly clean, this really feels like an Auslese to drink at the table rather than a big dessert wine trying to be a baby BA/TBA. Just an outstanding (half) bottle of wine.

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• kenv Likes this wine: 96 points

  March 31, 2024 - [Pop and pour. Half bottle with Salil.] Gorgeous nose of sweet citrus. Rich and fresh in the mouth with crisp acidity balancing the harmonious sweetness. An incredibly long finish of peaches, apricots and oranges. Expansive and gorgeous. Should be beautiful for at least another 20 years.
  A week later: It is just stunning. Virtually unchanged after a week in the fridge.

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• LikeABC Likes this wine: 97 points

  July 13, 2021 - Opened two hours before my Riesling tasting. Was in the third flight and showed incredibly well despite my crumbled cork. WOTY so far as this had everything I want in an Auslese, very good acid, not cloying at all but still pure fruit that was almost electric. Easily see it going for a couple more decades. Outstanding!

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• scamhi wrote:

  April 6, 2013 - this was great! super bright acidity and not at all cloying

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2005
• Type White - Off-dry
• Producer Zilliken (Forstmeister Geltz)
• Varietal Riesling
• Designation Auslese Goldkapsel #8
• Vineyard Saarburger Rausch
• Country Germany
• Region Mosel Saar Ruwer
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation n/a

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• In Cellars 166 (78%)
• Consumed 48 (22%)

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