Community Tasting Notes 66

• SpenceP wrote: 95 points

  April 2, 2024 - This was incredible fun--white peaches, grapefruit peel, mint, bubblegum, strawberries, pineapple, baked pears, honeysuckle, and a faint hint of nutmeg, followed by a delightful and wonderfully long aftertaste. A wine full of smiles. [Tasted over several hours from the Jancis Robinson glass.] Should be fine for another 3 years and probably longer. Previously tasted 10/23/23, 7/22/23, and 4/15/22.

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• salil wrote: 91 points

  November 12, 2023 - Opened at brunch with kenv (see his note), and while this is very good, it's not what it used to be. There's still some of the wild tropical fruit it had in its youth, but the mango/papaya flavors aren't anywhere near as intense or ripe as they used to be. It also feels a touch softer, but even then it's a wonderful wine with the impressive richness/intensity of the vintage and the joie de vivre of Scheurebe.

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• kenv Likes this wine: 92 points

  November 12, 2023 - Pop and pour. Brought to brunch by Salil. Honey and mango in the nose. Sweet but balanced. Lots of tropical fruit. Yummy. Salil says it's not as good as it once was, but it is damn good to me.

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• SpenceP wrote: 95 points

  October 23, 2023 - What a treat to be able to revisit this wine! Mint, grapefruit, white peaches, nutmeg, baked pears, very gentle pineapple and apricot, something richly floral--honeysuckle?--followed by an exceptionally long aftertaste. The apricot becomes more prominent after about an hour in the glass. Distinctly sweet, but without the weight of a dessert wine--might match well with chicken or pork or ham with a fruit garnish or sauce? [Tasted over an hour and a half from the Jancis Robinson glass, and more briefly from the old Dany Rolland Cristal d'Arques Oenologue glass. The Jancis Robinson glass gave much more clearly delineated complexity, and the Rolland glass gave more sheer presence in the mouth. The description reflects the Jancis Robinson glass, and score reflects a composite of the experiences with both glasses.] Previously tasted 7/22/23 and 4/15/22. This should bring smiles for at least another five years, and probably longer.

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• SpenceP wrote: 95 points

  July 22, 2023 - This wine is a delight--sweet grapefruit, pineapple, white peaches, mint, apricots, nutmeg, just a faint hint of blueberry, blending gracefully together, followed by a lovely long long aftertaste. Distinctly sweet, but nowhere near dessert wine sweetness. I had scored this wine at 94 points. But then I thought to glance at my earlier note (4/15/22). Three things struck me--first, the extraordinary similarity of my description of the wine. But second--that last time around I had scored the wine at 95 points, and third, that last time around I had found the wine significantly sweeter than this time. (I had also described the flavors as blurring together rather than blended, which might or might not be a difference) I found this interesting and speculated on possible reasons for the differences. And then it crossed my mind that back in the Spring of 2022 I had probably used a different wine glass--this time around I used the Jancis Robinson glass, but a year ago I would probably have used the old Dany Rolland Crystal d'Arques Oenologue glass (no longer produced). So I pulled out the Oenologue glass and tasted the wine again--and suddenly the wine was both distinctly sweeter and clearly 95 points--!! (And "blur" was suddenly the right word!) Conclusion: the glass you taste this wine from can make a significant difference!
  
  I've raised the score to 95 points, but have otherwise left the description of the wine as it was from the Jancis Robinson glass. The reason for the higher score is that this wine when tasted from the Oenologue glass was much more vividly present and rich in the mouth. However the Jancis Robinson glass gave a more vivid nose and clearer delineation of the various component flavors, so you might easily prefer that one--the point is not that one glass was "better" but that there were meaningful differences.
  
  This should stay lovely for at least five more years, probably much longer.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2001
• Type White - Off-dry
• Producer Müller-Catoir
• Varietal Scheurebe
• Designation Spätlese
• Vineyard Haardter Mandelring
• Country Germany
• Region Pfalz
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation n/a

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• In Cellars 81 (48%)
• Consumed 88 (52%)

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