Community Tasting Note

Ingmars wrote:

Sunday, March 17, 2024 - My 1st Dellchen. Over three days. Opened due to low level. No external evidence of a leak, but with the capsule removed, it was blindingly obvious that this example had leaked a good while ago, with enough residue having been built up between the cork and the top of the capsule preventing further leakage. Level 4.1cm below the cork, which fractured into three large segments upon removal.

Intense full yellow colour. Slightly volatile nose, but the attention was quickly drawn to the very obvious late-harvest and exotic characters that were showing here. Pungent marzipan to start, then developing over two hours to reveal mango, lactic notes, distant uncleaned ashtray and honey from fragrant nectar. The pungent, yellow-golden peach flavoured mouth seemed to still be very cohesive, introducing itself in a straight-forward manner, taking a couple of hours to add a creamy quality.

On the 2nd day, from a half, the colour had not advanced, but the late-harvest nature of the nose had become subdued by white fruit, camphor and wax, while the palate - again keeping its complexities to itself - preferred to show a lovely balance and good length. On the 3rd day, with a glass-worth remaining, the accent was clearly back on the late-harvest, with apricot flavours of auslese depth dominating the palate. Closer to very good plus than very good and should hold condition for at least a couple of years.

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