Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 90.7 points

  • Compared with Zilliken Rausch Kabinett 2011. More body, melon. Seems complexer, but I like the clean, crisp, mineral Zilliken better.

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  • More complex and mineral than the 2011, great wine. Love it.

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  • Wow! Bottle #3 of 12. Consistent with previous note. Pure as rainwater, with superb acidity and cut, with a super long verbena laden finish. This is a bomb Kabinett. Just starting its run, this will last for 20 years, though I wouldn't want to miss this phase. Brilliant.

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  • Bottle #2 of 12. Still excruciatingly primary. Wow. One of the best Kabinetts I've ever experienced. Hugely complex and super refined nose - verbena, lemongrass, green tea, lemon, lime. All things citrus, white, yellow, green, floral and sweet. Waxy, slippery, silky, dense and etheric all at the same time on the palate. Deft - in every way. Just a fantastic, mind-blowingly scrumptious bottle of wine. The last sips in the glass after two hours started to show deeper white fruits and a smoky almost tropical flower sweet fragrance and attack, followed by a perfectly balanced and saline dry finish. Unbelievably great Kabinett in the making. 93pts pure quality, 95pts personal preference.

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  • Color: Pale straw.

    Nose: Electric---you can immediately smell the tension between tart lemony acid and honeyed peach sweetness. There's also a strong spine of rocky mineral and a faint dusty/leathery/earth character. No petrol or sponti notes to speak of. Fresh, pure, and clean.

    Mouthfeel: Medium bodied, lively and with some extract.

    Palate: Pretty much exactly what the nose foretold. Absolutely delicious, with a pure honeyed sweetness perfectly balanced against the fierce lemon-lime acidic structure. Vibrates with energy. The finish is long and lipsmacking, extending the sweet-acid combo long after you swallow. This is where the mineral comes through as well, adding a subtle savory dimension to the afterglow.

    What a delightful bottle of wine. Energetic, balanced, nuanced, and most of all insanely delicious. Tremendous value. Great labels these guys have, too.

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  • Drank across two days. Initially the nose was a little mute and, although there was a touch of sweetness to the mid-palate, a lovely stony transparency rendered the finish almost dry. Much more aromatic on day two with the palate seeming a little sweeter. A cracking kab; great value, too.

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  • interesting aromas, something vaguely cheesey in there among the fruit, but in a good way. The fruit is lovely and the minerals pure. The acidity is there too. Delicious wine, seems like it has a bright future too.

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  • Retasted after a first tasting in June 2012. Very pale, light color, almost as clear as water. Spontaneous fermentation nose still very prominent, followed by peach aromas. Medium bodied wine, very ripe, aromas of peach, pear and some cream. Low acidity, less prominent than in 2012. Short finish. Later, I started getting some strawberry aromas. Liked this wine a lot. Less refreshing than in 2012.

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  • As the initial reductive elements level out the wine offers a pure fruit and herb driven character with noticeable scents of white peach and mint, in a bright and airy style. The mouthfeel is mixed. On the one hand it offers an interesting interplay between sweetness and bitterness and on the other the fruit appears as overshadowed by the alcohol (even at 8%) with the (rather low) acidity not feeling precise enough, leaving a somewhat harsh feel towards the finish. This is one of those for which the term "interesting" is indeed appropriate. Too young, time will tell.

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  • Light yellow. Crisp nose of lime, creamy peach, grapefruit, and chalk. There is a serious herbal-crisp vegetal-cumin-saline component that makes my mouth water. Enters sweet and bitter with peach and peach pit. Lime and more chalk and some honey. Quite concentrated on the palate, but also pretty light on its feet. The finish shows lime, peach pit and chalk, and is good, but not up to par with the rest of the wine - maybe a tad short. Reminds me a bit of AJ Adam in style - slightly more elegant with less power. Nose - 5.5/6, Palate - 5/6, Finish - 4.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 16/20.

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  • Langton's Cellar Club February 2013 - Riesling around the world (Roof Terrace Australian Museum): I am assured that the huge dose of sulphur that this wine exhibits is by intention. Despite being double decanted and vigorously agitated in the glass there was no diminishing of this quality. FLAW

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  • German Riesling, By Farr and Burgundy tasting (Prince Wine Store - Bank Street): A nice citrus and peach nose with a stinky gravelly element and a nice integrated mineral finish. This is exceptional value.

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  • Wow. This is packed and stacked in the most elegant way. My nose literally tickled on first smelling the crystalline, saline citrus and brothy verbena this nose has to offer. The palate follows suit and adds focused currants to the strong multifaceted citrus along with bracing, beautifully woven, mouth watering acids. Perfect body and sweetness for a young (true) Kabinett. The first of the case, and one I literally salivate over thinking about the upcoming couple of decades. Thank you MFW!

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  • Intense nose with ripe fruits like pineapple. Medium-dry with fresh and dry finish. Lots of acidity, long-lasting.

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  • Reserved on the nose with only slight fruit coming through. Steely soil character more pronounced.
    Off-dry beautifully concentrated and seriously structured palate of peachy fruit with green apple highlights. Minerally. Long.
    Huge potential here.

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