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Friday, July 31, 2015 - Here's a little video I did on this, in fact the first on my wine vlog.
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Forget young whites. This is incredible. You won't be able to find this particular producer anymore, the Weingut seems to be defunct. The bottle doesn't even mention the abv content and is a rare old 0,7 l version. Originally this may have been a rather mediocre Mosel-Riesling, but now, almost 30 years later, it is a revelation.

Citrus notes seem to be gone, except they return in the incredible length. But at the arrival instead of citrus you get old quince and some old apple, a bit of botrytis and even plum ! In a Riesling ? Acidity is still present, actually a bit to the sour side, but its halbtrocken/off-dry constitution and its depth are such that it almost doesn't matter.

So the cork was soaked, immediately broke and one half fell into the bottle and into the wine (where it is swimming happily as I write this), but the wine is still phenomenal in spite of that. I am too inexperienced with old Rieslings to know whether the barnyard note is a sign of slight spoilage or if this comes with age - it gives it a reminiscence of Pinot Noir, but I love it.

Consider this: I got it for 3 € (less than 5 € including postage). The trader assigned a medium risk to it and so sold it cheap. I would think that this bottle was worth roughly 40 - 50 €, had you known that it was going to be good.

Experimental wine buying ! So what's this wine to you since it is going to be as extinct as the dinosaurs after I drank mine ? Maybe an inspiration to look through old cellars, bequests of people who don't care about their old stuff...away from the commercial mainstream.

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