Compared to our previous bottle, almost seven years ago, this has settled down a bit. The flamboyant tropical fruit remains, perhaps with mango now leading the charge, but it's a bit more mellow and rounded on the palate. With that said, assertive foods are still required to keep this at bay. A tangy tamarind chicken was just about right.
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Troptisk frukt og hint av petroleum. I munnen mild sitrus, mandarin og appelsin. Deilig fruktfylde og frisk ettersmak med hint av after eight som sitter en stund.
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Fairly deep golden yellow. Honeyed nose of pineapple, flowers. Very ripe palate of ripe orange, pineapple, tropicals and a bitter/tart note, perhaps of watermelon rind. The attack is quite sweet and honeyed (Auslese levels, certainly), but with good acid for balance. Ripe, fruit forward. Very good.
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Pop and pour. In the glass, deep, clear yellow-gold, verging on orange. On the nose, crushed fruit and secondary notes of sea breeze. On the palate, an explosion of tropical fruits, led by passionfruit, mango, and oranges. There is ample sweetness here, but it's the fruit that leads the way, and it borders on being too much of a good thing; this wine is going to overpower a lot of foods. Next time, I need to try this with some spicy curries.
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NOSE > Big, musky, creamy, tight & exotic fruit stuffed nose. Lime-flesh/lime-oil, nectarine, wet river-rocks, yellow-peach, morrello-cherry, stone, slate, crushed-rock, honeysuckle, star-fruit, & gala-apple. Beautiful vein of Botrytis is mostly subsumed by the avalanche of tight, exotic, intense fruit. PALATE > Big, intense, sweet, musky, fresh orchard & citrus-fruit. Tons/waves of tight & exotic fruit, with apricot/tart-apricot, pink-grapefruit, lime-flesh/lime-oil, yellow-peach, quince, & nectarine. Big/intense. Pretty big, rich/savory sweetness reigned in by substantial acidity. Nice undertone of clean Botrytis. Med+ depth & length. Finishes tight, with lime, tart-apricot, & crushed-rock. Drinks much drier than it is, with fruity acidity cleaning the palate, while leaving strong eddies & echoes of the cornucopia of tart, stony, exotic fruit. Love the combo of tight/tart-fruit + exotic + stony/slatey. Great length, depth, & intensity. These better 2010's are really something else. (94+)
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I agree with Salil's assessment. This wine is just a touch too ripe and sugary. I'm not sure it'll ever come together. The problem is that it's too sweet to pair with food yet it's not a dessert wine. Perhaps drinking this very cold might help it out.
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This is a good, middle-of-the-road Spätlese with appreciable sweetness but little depth or complexity. I would expect more at this price point. Mosels like this can be had in some abundance under $20, but this one was priced originally at $35, on sale for $25.
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Holy Crap. I usually like that soft Schaefer version of this vineyard, but this is HIGH strung and I love it. Same Domprobst nose of vanilla and peaches but with crazy concentration and acid. Every time I drink a bottle of 09 or 11 German riesling it makes me miss 10 even more. This is great. The length is superlative and the concentration is amazing. Winemaking top notch. I love it.
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Riesling Blind Tasting (My Home): At first, the nose was almost a little Sauternes-ish is terms of richness and aromatics with a lot of exotic fruits, apricot and pineapple. Thick texture but rather balanced. The acidity is kicking back nicely on the finish. Not a bad wine but needs more years to digest the RS better.
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Orgy of orchard fruits, syrupy and gooey and luscious, but with a responsible amount of clean acid that tightens up the RS-laden act. A very impressive wine which unfortunately could never responsibly be sold to the "oh, Riesling? I don't like sweet whites" crowd, but I'm toying with leading Moscato buyers over to this if they're feeling spendy as they may just find their match.
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A pretty dense Spatlese with ripe pineapple, and mango fruit. The palate was rich and dense with nice tropical fruits, lanolin tones and a subtle stoniness on the finish.
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Nose > Honeysuckle, rose-petal, lanolin, key-lime, yellow-peach, nectarine, kiwi-fruit, musk-melon, mango, pineapple, & powdered minerals. Really heavenly slatey minerality & sweaty/sappy Riesling fruit, with hint of etherial creamed-corn. Very pungent, slatey/steely/sweaty, exotic, & elegant.
Palate > Big, angular, creamy/steely/slatey white-peach, lime-oil, mango, & blackcurrant. Fleshy key-lime, w/some citrus-pith mid-palate. Finishes with slightly bitter lime-flesh, pungent red & black-cherry, intertwined with highish, but pure, ripe acidity (seems like mostly tartaric here). Long aftertaste & extended finish. Wow is this elegant & classy, as well as stealthily quite intense, powerful even. Great balance & structure. Probably more than medium sweet, but its medium+ acidity & great intensity make it drink a bit dryer than it (probably) is.
Another beauty from this stable in 2010. This Riesling is too elegant to scream WOW, but it is right there.
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I believe this is 100% barrel fermented. Slately nose. Sweeter than the Schlossberg but still tart. Fatty fruits mask the acidity somewhat. A rounder entry but not out overly so.
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2/23/2023 - jshufelt wrote: 92 Points
Compared to our previous bottle, almost seven years ago, this has settled down a bit. The flamboyant tropical fruit remains, perhaps with mango now leading the charge, but it's a bit more mellow and rounded on the palate. With that said, assertive foods are still required to keep this at bay. A tangy tamarind chicken was just about right.
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12/24/2022 - daghaug Likes this wine:
Troptisk frukt og hint av petroleum. I munnen mild sitrus, mandarin og appelsin. Deilig fruktfylde og frisk ettersmak med hint av after eight som sitter en stund.
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9/11/2022 - Richard P Howden Likes this wine: 90 Points
Nice and well balanced. Very sweet on entry with a pretty nose but lacking in depth and complexity to merit a higher score. Still, enjoyable Spätlese.
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3/3/2017 - indiscriminate palate wrote: 89 Points
Fairly deep golden yellow. Honeyed nose of pineapple, flowers. Very ripe palate of ripe orange, pineapple, tropicals and a bitter/tart note, perhaps of watermelon rind. The attack is quite sweet and honeyed (Auslese levels, certainly), but with good acid for balance. Ripe, fruit forward. Very good.
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4/23/2016 - jshufelt wrote: 91 Points
Pop and pour. In the glass, deep, clear yellow-gold, verging on orange. On the nose, crushed fruit and secondary notes of sea breeze. On the palate, an explosion of tropical fruits, led by passionfruit, mango, and oranges. There is ample sweetness here, but it's the fruit that leads the way, and it borders on being too much of a good thing; this wine is going to overpower a lot of foods. Next time, I need to try this with some spicy curries.
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12/30/2014 - Rob Hansult Likes this wine: 94 Points
NOSE > Big, musky, creamy, tight & exotic fruit stuffed nose. Lime-flesh/lime-oil, nectarine, wet river-rocks, yellow-peach, morrello-cherry, stone, slate, crushed-rock, honeysuckle, star-fruit, & gala-apple.
Beautiful vein of Botrytis is mostly subsumed by the avalanche of tight, exotic, intense fruit.
PALATE > Big, intense, sweet, musky, fresh orchard & citrus-fruit. Tons/waves of tight & exotic fruit, with apricot/tart-apricot, pink-grapefruit, lime-flesh/lime-oil, yellow-peach, quince, & nectarine. Big/intense.
Pretty big, rich/savory sweetness reigned in by substantial acidity. Nice undertone of clean Botrytis.
Med+ depth & length.
Finishes tight, with lime, tart-apricot, & crushed-rock. Drinks much drier than it is, with fruity acidity cleaning the palate, while leaving strong eddies & echoes of the cornucopia of tart, stony, exotic fruit.
Love the combo of tight/tart-fruit + exotic + stony/slatey.
Great length, depth, & intensity.
These better 2010's are really something else.
(94+)
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1/11/2014 - EhrlichDY wrote: 89 Points
I agree with Salil's assessment. This wine is just a touch too ripe and sugary. I'm not sure it'll ever come together. The problem is that it's too sweet to pair with food yet it's not a dessert wine. Perhaps drinking this very cold might help it out.
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10/17/2013 - Orlandus wrote: 88 Points
This is a good, middle-of-the-road Spätlese with appreciable sweetness but little depth or complexity. I would expect more at this price point. Mosels like this can be had in some abundance under $20, but this one was priced originally at $35, on sale for $25.
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8/25/2012 - liteagilis wrote: 93 Points
Holy Crap.
I usually like that soft Schaefer version of this vineyard, but this is HIGH strung and I love it.
Same Domprobst nose of vanilla and peaches but with crazy concentration and acid. Every time I drink a bottle of 09 or 11 German riesling it makes me miss 10 even more. This is great. The length is superlative and the concentration is amazing. Winemaking top notch. I love it.
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7/30/2012 - french16 wrote:
Riesling Blind Tasting (My Home): At first, the nose was almost a little Sauternes-ish is terms of richness and aromatics with a lot of exotic fruits, apricot and pineapple. Thick texture but rather balanced. The acidity is kicking back nicely on the finish.
Not a bad wine but needs more years to digest the RS better.
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4/13/2012 - Gargantua wrote:
Orgy of orchard fruits, syrupy and gooey and luscious, but with a responsible amount of clean acid that tightens up the RS-laden act. A very impressive wine which unfortunately could never responsibly be sold to the "oh, Riesling? I don't like sweet whites" crowd, but I'm toying with leading Moscato buyers over to this if they're feeling spendy as they may just find their match.
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2/4/2012 - tooch wrote: 89 Points
A pretty dense Spatlese with ripe pineapple, and mango fruit. The palate was rich and dense with nice tropical fruits, lanolin tones and a subtle stoniness on the finish.
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1/10/2012 - Rob Hansult Likes this wine: 94 Points
Very pale yellow/green.
Nose > Honeysuckle, rose-petal, lanolin, key-lime, yellow-peach, nectarine, kiwi-fruit, musk-melon, mango, pineapple, & powdered minerals.
Really heavenly slatey minerality & sweaty/sappy Riesling fruit, with hint of etherial creamed-corn.
Very pungent, slatey/steely/sweaty, exotic, & elegant.
Palate > Big, angular, creamy/steely/slatey white-peach, lime-oil, mango, & blackcurrant. Fleshy key-lime, w/some citrus-pith mid-palate.
Finishes with slightly bitter lime-flesh, pungent red & black-cherry, intertwined with highish, but pure, ripe acidity (seems like mostly tartaric here).
Long aftertaste & extended finish.
Wow is this elegant & classy, as well as stealthily quite intense, powerful even. Great balance & structure.
Probably more than medium sweet, but its medium+ acidity & great intensity make it drink a bit dryer than it (probably) is.
Another beauty from this stable in 2010. This Riesling is too elegant to scream WOW, but it is right there.
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6/30/2011 - WetRock wrote:
I believe this is 100% barrel fermented. Slately nose. Sweeter than the Schlossberg but still tart. Fatty fruits mask the acidity somewhat. A rounder entry but not out overly so.
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6/27/2011 - rjonwine@gmail.com wrote: 93 Points
2010 Vintage Germany and Austria: Terry Theise and WineWise/The Vienna Wine Company Trade Tasting (Hawthorne Room, Golden Gate Club, San Francisco Presidio, California): Light yellow color; tart lemon, mineral, tart apple nose; tasty, rich but poised, medium bodied, tart peach, tart apple, lemon palate with near medium acidity; medium-plus finish 93+ points (oak and 1/2 ambient yeast)
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6/21/2011 - salil wrote: 90 Points
Theise/Skurnik DI tasting. Creamy; dense; layers of ripe yellow/white fruits and stony notes, very ripe but excellent.
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