Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Thursday, November 14, 2019 - Tasted blind in a tasting of fifteen dry 2009 Rieslings.

Moderately deep and concentrated lime-green color. Somewhat stuffy, reductive and understated nose with aromas of sponti funk, some wizened red apples, a little bit of dank herbal greenness and a hint of sweet grapey fruit. The wine is crisp, clean and perhaps dry-ish to slightly off-dry with medium-body and firm and lively flavors of tart lemony citrus fruits, some key lime, a little bit of stuffy reduction, light tangy notes of Granny Smith apple, a little bit of steely minerality and a hint of grapey fruit. Incisive bracing acidity. The finish is crisp, long and acid-driven with lively flavors of tangy salinity, steely minerality, some lemony citrus fruits, a little bit of apple peel bitterness, light stony mineral tones and a hint of herbal spice. The fruit flavors feel quite understated in the aftertaste and they quickly give way to the more prominent mineral tones.

A very impressive, crisp and clean GG Riesling that is still both painfully young and also slightly reductive even now, at 10 years of age. On the palate the wine is clean and precise, but it is obvious from the nose that the wine is still in dire need of further aging. Not even two hours of letting the wine breathe did make it open up fully. Most likely won't be hitting its apogee within the next 10 years. Obviously a wine with more potential than immediate pleasure; let it wait and expect the score to go up with age. Scored a total of 13 points, making the wine finish in the 13th place.

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