April 14, 2024 - "Pairs with Sadness" (Chicago, IL): Brilliant stuff as always. This is definitely a fleshier, riper edition, with so much fruit that it feels like this has retained a hint of residual sweetness. It's not as delineated and cut as the magnificent 2019, but there is certainly an allure to this edition of a perennial favourite.
April 8, 2024 - consistent with my note from 10/23
February 3, 2024 - Bright and powerful nose, full of citrus and green apple and sweet herbs and crushed stone, classically Riesling. Dense and silky, almost chewy with fine extract, but lacks precision. Enough acid but not exactly racy. Could use a little more length.
October 12, 2023 - A year later ( i could not wait another year), the wine has opened up beautifully. Some petrol in the nose, much minerality, lingering aftertaste: a mighty riesling in the making. 93+
April 12, 2023 - This was decanted in the fridge for a few hours before drinking. The nose is deep, balanced, and fresh as it fills the glass with green apples, a touch of petrol, peaches, crushed rocks, saline, limes, acacia flowers, jasmine, and white fruits. The Medium bodied feel is vibrant and balanced with tart, high acidity that is backed up by a fresh, lengthy finish. This has really developed in the nearly 3 years since I last had it. The palate has fleshed out more and while the acidity has cut, it is much more integrated. This is in a great place right now. Though it will easily age longer, it has entered its window and is a beautiful Halenberg.
March 16, 2023 - not blind
Typical Riesling aromas but lesss fruity and powerful as you would guess for this warm vintage 2018. Opened but focused and precise. 92-93
October 8, 2022 - A private dinner with friends (Wine Bar Oocker, Amsterdam, NL): Deep and stony, elegant but brooding, spices and flowers, jasmin and rose, silky and supple, tense but relaxed, lively bitters, excellent resonance and length.
October 4, 2022 - 100% closed. Another try in two years
May 23, 2022 - Took just a bit of air to blow off the petro nose. Loved the density and concentration on this. Great core of stone fruit, straw, and fresh minerality. Nice roundness. Delicious now with the structure to age very nicely.
April 13, 2022 - Lys gul tendenser til grønnlig farge. Duft av modne frukter, lett petroleum, flint. Moderat syre, gule frukter, hvit pære, noe fedme men ikke mye, lett steinete. Har begynnende tendenser til petroleum. Hadde den på en GG smaking for noen uker siden, kom ut klart best av de 4 vi smakte. Samme vin i 2016 var blitt veldig moden med en del petroleum. Synes denne er flott nå, holder sikkert mange år til, men egentlig ingen grunn til å vente heller.