Over 6 years since I last had this. Still youthful, sweeter than I remember which makes it a little uncomplex. Very nice yellow fruits and decent acidity. Lemons, yellow plums, peaches. Tastes a bit in-between in terms of evolution. Leave for another 5 years.
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One of a trio of sweeter Rieslings with homemade Vietnamese grilled pork chops, and the winner of the lot for sure! Beautiful aromatics, with tons of spice and apricot, but with a citrusy back, like an apricot pastry with nice hit of lemon zest. This had great suppleness in the mouth, with plenty of acidity and a humming energy that kept the finishing vibrating. I might have wished for a bit more minerality, but that's just a preference. It was a smashing match with the pork chops, both the caramelized edges and the luscious fat, of course, but also the more challenging pickled vegetables and herbs. It really put on a show for us, and was gone faster than I would have predicted with three bottles open for the 3 of us. A really well balanced bottle at a very nice place in its development. Many years ahead of it, though, and no rush to drink up.
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First of these since 2016, I found this bottle to be slightly subdued compared to what I remember, but other than that pretty solid. A good level of openness and maturity without lost fruit. The sweetness level is pushing my comfort zone and the acid was perhaps not quite what I might have wanted. I actually wondered if it could be very slightly corked, producing the perception of muteness, but neither of us detected any overt odors. A very easy to drink wine, though, and a nice match with fresh, cool Vietnamese food.
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Pineapple, peach, lemon and a hint of petrol. Good sweet to acid balance. Full weight and texture. Went well with a spicy pork shoulder with ginger, garlic and soy.
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Acidity and sweetness play off each other. Apple, lemon, and pineapple dance on the tongue. Nice foil to a slightly spicy ginger sesame salmon over quinoa.
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Dinner with Gavin at Bistrode: AP #26. Spice, lemon, mineral and pear. Fantastic palate balance, light on its feet but has great depth to it already. Young but super lovely.
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Not much evolution since I last had this in 2010, a bit more integrated perhaps but still fairly primary. Super nose with lemon zest wild yeast and a bready note. Great Apple and citrus mix with a tough of that yeast. Spatlese sweetness but good acidity typical of the vintage. Lovely, classic wine.
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Useful to be able to check into a bottle, but this is really not a wine to be opened right now. It's all about sugary sweetness, with the fruit and mineral flavours very reticent and not emerging even with some time in the glass and vigorous swirling.
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A chalky medicine, green apple, vegetal, an old unkept refrigerator. Palate gained some weight? Sweet entry leading to a burst of delicious apples with hints of creaminess and a tangy spritz here and there. A really long finish.
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Consistent with previous note although it has been over a year since our last bottle. Liquified baked apple with great acidity that keeps it in the fairway. Touch of petrol in the finish. Good match for spicy Cajun Chicken.
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A bit subdued on the first night, but really opened up into a beautiful young wine on night 2. Little signs of development, still mostly primary on the nose and palate. Delicate and filigreed but countered with a really nice punch of intensity that lingers on the back of the palate. Mostly bright citrus type fruits right now, perhaps some more tropical fruit type flavors mixing in. The acidity really is impressive too... yeah, this is really good. Can be consumed with pleasure now, despite being in it's adolescence, but I am sure this will only get better with some more time in the cellar. Benchmark kind of wine.
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Bright, focused, full of tart peach and lime fruit, along with a firm mineral backbone. While it's fairly sweet the acidity cuts through it all to clean up the finish and invite the next sip.
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Tasted non blind at a wine dinner. Opened and served immediately.
Light yellow color in the glass, clear looking throughout. Nose of dirty diaper, sulfur and mixed yellow fruits. Flavors of sweet cherries, lime and a hint of lemon curd. Bright acidity, medium body. Drink or hold.
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CT Texas IV - A Hill Country Treat; 5/18/2012-5/19/2012 (Austin, Texas): Tasted from magnum. Nose of honeydew, pears, slate, and white flowers. On the palate, apple, pear, melon, mineral, with hints of lynchee. Crisp finish with a bit of spritz. Far too young to consume, but a treat nonetheless.
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CT Texas IV (Austin, TX): Tasted non blind at a wine dinner from a magnum. Nose of melons, honeysuckle and white flowers. Similar palate with a nice effervescent quality. Smooth and crisp consistent finish but would liked for it to have been a bit longer. All in all, this one is drinking nicely despite its youth.
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Excellent spatlese. Apple and citrus jumped out of the bottle when cork was pulled. Same aromas and flavors persist throughout. Hints of peach, quince and slate. This was drinking nicely from start to finish. Enjoyed by all with grilled swordfish.
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A Week in Las Vegas; 3/26/2012-4/2/2012 (Las Vegas, NV): Bright tropical fruit on the nose with a tangy sweetness to it. The palate was supple and sweet with juicy mango, peach and floral tones. The acidity was certainly lower than I expected for the ordinarily high-acid 2008 vintage. Seems to be moving into its middle age.
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This showed exceptionally well, as expected. Bouquet of lemon, lime and hints of apple with a tangy zip upon opening. It rounded out quite a bit after sitting around. Stronger grip on the palate yet smooth with some bitter mineral on the finish.
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First taste of this wine in almost two years. The notes from the last bottle still apply. "Very pale yellow color. A full nose dominated by apple and mineral. Fabulous combination of lime, apple, peach and ginger. Bracing acidity. Creamy texture and a long, smooth and complex finish." I am also now getting a flash of marzipan in the finish. This is a great sipper following a big holiday meal. .... On night two it tastes very much like a liquified cinnamon baked apple with a little crushed slate added.
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Makes me pine for a tropical beach. This has expressive tropical fruits, citrus and crushed rocks seamlessly integrated throughout. Seemed to lose a little bit of its youthful acidity, but it's still drinking very nicely.
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I really had to give this wine some time to open up, because at first I could not understand it. When I eventually did, I realized how truly awesome this wine is. Kept raising and raising the score, and am now satisfied at 92. It is outstanding. Ripe fruit on the nose, especially ripe peach, lots of pineapple and some tropical papaya and melon. But it is the nonfruit flavors that really separate this wine. Earth, hay and autumn harvest components lead in the glass. Developing nose. Medium plus acidity and medium-full bodied. Hay, honey and peach really come through on the palate. Powerful, beautiful wine. Recommend a little breathing time. Outstanding.
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Racy nose of lime, lemons, wet slate and some herbs. The palate displays lush, dense tropical fruit with impeccable balance. Despite the density of the palate here, this doesn't approach sappy or sticky. The melange of fruit transition to a beautiful finish with clean, zippy acid. Schäfer-Fröhlich was able to produce a very classic spatlese that should benefit from cellaring, but if you're curious to try one now, you won't be disappointed.
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Light golden straw color. Funky sulfur on the nose on opening. On the first day, this came across fairly dry for a Spatlese. Some white fruit and earthy minerals on the palate. After a couple days in the fridge, the sweetness is more prominent, and it's balanced by racy acidity. Nose of green apple, tropical fruits, kumquat and that earthy minerality again. Beautifully balanced on the palate, with sweet limes, green mango, Asian pear and salty minerals. Compared to 2006 and 2009, much leaner and more precise. Very eager to see how this develops over the next several years.
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Great upfront acidity - just bursting with limes! Such a fresh wine with a great body that is lithe and airy. Razor sharp acidity fueled by citrus and minerals makes this a wonderful wine to pair with food.
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Very interesting wine. What at first I thought was a whiff of sulphur on the nose was more mineral than matchsticks - a very minerally and earthy nose. No obvious fruit descriptors, more complex and nuanced than that - red fruits if anything. To taste, at the dry end of Spatlese, off-dry and lovely matt fruit, rounded and full with more of that mineral complexity. Earthy again, with lots going on. Very fine.
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Best bottle I've had yet. Gorgeous floral and mineral notes on top of fresh vivid lime, pear and cherry fruit that has razor sharp precision and the purity of Alpine spring water, very light on its feet with plenty of acidity and serious length. Fantastic Spätlese.
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Really impressive; fresh floral and mineral aromas leading into a palate full of vivid, bright fruit with really nice acids balancing the sweetness here.
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Fresh mineral bouquet with some asparagus notes after an hour or so. Perfect sweetness for me. Paints a broad stroke of lemon, lime and saline on the palate while maintaining its structure. A very nice quencher for spicy thai food.
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Nose: Gaseous funk, strongly evoking durian. Past the funk are apples, apricots, pears, and a hint of lime. Palate: Good, zesty citrus, apricots, and apples on the attack, with a hint of minerality. Excellent, crackling acidity develops on the mid-palate, showing this spatlese's impeccable balance. For my palate, this spatlese has the perfect levels of sugar, backed by ample fruit and acidity. An abundance of primary flavors make this eminently drinkable now, but the elements for developing secondary characteristics are there for those who want to lay these down for a bit.
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Served at 46 degrees. Very pale yellow color. A full nose dominated by apple and mineral. Fabulous combination of lime, apple, peach and ginger. Bracing acidity. Creamy texture and a long, smooth and complex finish. There are a lot of good things going on here.
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Definitely the best pure spätlese I've had from the vintage so far. Almost like an '05, this one has it all -- rich lime-like fruit that's practically creamy in its lusciousness with a texture that simultaneously seems to leave icicles in its wake. Packed with material but sharp as a razor.
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From magnum. Really primary and packed with incredibly fresh, ripe fruit ranging from cherries and mandarin orange to more classic apple and lime flavours, and bright floral and minerally notes emerging with some air. Very rich and sweet, but there's really bright acidity underneath keeping it very fresh and balanced. Really impressive - I need to find more of this.
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Same texture and ripeness of the 2007 Bbockenauer Felsneck, but less floral and generally more masculine. Pale pear like color. Not giving much on the nose. Medium weight, which compares favorably to most other 2008s I have tried. Minerality and ripeness cover the tastebuds upfront followed by a long finish dominated by freshly cut juicy apples, quince and raspberries. Again, the powerful yet elegant style of Schafer Frohlich is evident here. This is could easily be mistaken for a 2007. Excellent.
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7/18/2021 - kevin h wrote: 91 Points
Over 6 years since I last had this. Still youthful, sweeter than I remember which makes it a little uncomplex. Very nice yellow fruits and decent acidity. Lemons, yellow plums, peaches. Tastes a bit in-between in terms of evolution. Leave for another 5 years.
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6/27/2021 - NYC_Maenad Likes this wine:
One of a trio of sweeter Rieslings with homemade Vietnamese grilled pork chops, and the winner of the lot for sure! Beautiful aromatics, with tons of spice and apricot, but with a citrusy back, like an apricot pastry with nice hit of lemon zest. This had great suppleness in the mouth, with plenty of acidity and a humming energy that kept the finishing vibrating. I might have wished for a bit more minerality, but that's just a preference. It was a smashing match with the pork chops, both the caramelized edges and the luscious fat, of course, but also the more challenging pickled vegetables and herbs. It really put on a show for us, and was gone faster than I would have predicted with three bottles open for the 3 of us. A really well balanced bottle at a very nice place in its development. Many years ahead of it, though, and no rush to drink up.
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6/27/2020 - NYC_Maenad Likes this wine:
First of these since 2016, I found this bottle to be slightly subdued compared to what I remember, but other than that pretty solid. A good level of openness and maturity without lost fruit. The sweetness level is pushing my comfort zone and the acid was perhaps not quite what I might have wanted. I actually wondered if it could be very slightly corked, producing the perception of muteness, but neither of us detected any overt odors. A very easy to drink wine, though, and a nice match with fresh, cool Vietnamese food.
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1/16/2017 - tantotinto wrote: 91 Points
Pineapple, peach, lemon and a hint of petrol. Good sweet to acid balance. Full weight and texture. Went well with a spicy pork shoulder with ginger, garlic and soy.
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9/15/2016 - Diane (LI) wrote:
Acidity and sweetness play off each other. Apple, lemon, and pineapple dance on the tongue. Nice foil to a slightly spicy ginger sesame salmon over quinoa.
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4/22/2015 - CamWheeler wrote: 92 Points
Dinner with Gavin at Bistrode: AP #26. Spice, lemon, mineral and pear. Fantastic palate balance, light on its feet but has great depth to it already. Young but super lovely.
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1/30/2015 - kevin h wrote: 92 Points
Not much evolution since I last had this in 2010, a bit more integrated perhaps but still fairly primary. Super nose with lemon zest wild yeast and a bready note. Great Apple and citrus mix with a tough of that yeast. Spatlese sweetness but good acidity typical of the vintage. Lovely, classic wine.
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11/30/2013 - salil wrote:
Useful to be able to check into a bottle, but this is really not a wine to be opened right now. It's all about sugary sweetness, with the fruit and mineral flavours very reticent and not emerging even with some time in the glass and vigorous swirling.
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7/1/2013 - Kevin_C wrote: 93 Points
A chalky medicine, green apple, vegetal, an old unkept refrigerator. Palate gained some weight? Sweet entry leading to a burst of delicious apples with hints of creaminess and a tangy spritz here and there. A really long finish.
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2/16/2013 - tantotinto wrote: 91 Points
Consistent with previous note although it has been over a year since our last bottle. Liquified baked apple with great acidity that keeps it in the fairway. Touch of petrol in the finish. Good match for spicy Cajun Chicken.
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11/23/2012 - Chris Newport wrote:
A bit subdued on the first night, but really opened up into a beautiful young wine on night 2. Little signs of development, still mostly primary on the nose and palate. Delicate and filigreed but countered with a really nice punch of intensity that lingers on the back of the palate. Mostly bright citrus type fruits right now, perhaps some more tropical fruit type flavors mixing in. The acidity really is impressive too... yeah, this is really good. Can be consumed with pleasure now, despite being in it's adolescence, but I am sure this will only get better with some more time in the cellar. Benchmark kind of wine.
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11/8/2012 - STEVEN@WINECELLARCLUB.COM wrote:
joey tastin wcc
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5/28/2012 - Rieslingfan wrote:
Bright, focused, full of tart peach and lime fruit, along with a firm mineral backbone. While it's fairly sweet the acidity cuts through it all to clean up the finish and invite the next sip.
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5/18/2012 - ckinv368 wrote: 91 Points
CT Offline IV--Hill Country Edition; 5/18/2012-5/19/2012 (Austin / Texas Hill Country / Castleman Ranch): Drank from a magnum. Very grassy on the nose. Sweet, smooth, yet nice citrus fruit. Very fresh, but seems much older and more well-refined than a 2008 riesling would otherwise be. Lovely for sure. Love this wine---has gotten even better after being open for a couple hours!
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5/18/2012 - wineismylife wrote: 91 Points
CT Texas IV - Friday Night Dinner (Hudson on the Bend, Austin, TX): WIML91
Tasted non blind at a wine dinner. Opened and served immediately.
Light yellow color in the glass, clear looking throughout. Nose of dirty diaper, sulfur and mixed yellow fruits. Flavors of sweet cherries, lime and a hint of lemon curd. Bright acidity, medium body. Drink or hold.
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5/18/2012 - GalvezGuy wrote: 91 Points
CT Texas IV - A Hill Country Treat; 5/18/2012-5/19/2012 (Austin, Texas): Tasted from magnum. Nose of honeydew, pears, slate, and white flowers. On the palate, apple, pear, melon, mineral, with hints of lynchee. Crisp finish with a bit of spritz. Far too young to consume, but a treat nonetheless.
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5/18/2012 - floydtp wrote: 92 Points
CT Texas IV (Austin, TX): Tasted non blind at a wine dinner from a magnum. Nose of melons, honeysuckle and white flowers. Similar palate with a nice effervescent quality. Smooth and crisp consistent finish but would liked for it to have been a bit longer. All in all, this one is drinking nicely despite its youth.
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4/15/2012 - jwolf99 Likes this wine: 93 Points
Excellent spatlese. Apple and citrus jumped out of the bottle when cork was pulled. Same aromas and flavors persist throughout. Hints of peach, quince and slate. This was drinking nicely from start to finish. Enjoyed by all with grilled swordfish.
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3/28/2012 - tooch wrote: 90 Points
A Week in Las Vegas; 3/26/2012-4/2/2012 (Las Vegas, NV): Bright tropical fruit on the nose with a tangy sweetness to it. The palate was supple and sweet with juicy mango, peach and floral tones. The acidity was certainly lower than I expected for the ordinarily high-acid 2008 vintage. Seems to be moving into its middle age.
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12/25/2011 - Kevin_C wrote: 92 Points
This showed exceptionally well, as expected. Bouquet of lemon, lime and hints of apple with a tangy zip upon opening. It rounded out quite a bit after sitting around. Stronger grip on the palate yet smooth with some bitter mineral on the finish.
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12/25/2011 - tantotinto wrote: 92 Points
First taste of this wine in almost two years. The notes from the last bottle still apply. "Very pale yellow color. A full nose dominated by apple and mineral. Fabulous combination of lime, apple, peach and ginger. Bracing acidity. Creamy texture and a long, smooth and complex finish." I am also now getting a flash of marzipan in the finish. This is a great sipper following a big holiday meal. .... On night two it tastes very much like a liquified cinnamon baked apple with a little crushed slate added.
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11/21/2011 - tooch wrote: 91 Points
Makes me pine for a tropical beach. This has expressive tropical fruits, citrus and crushed rocks seamlessly integrated throughout. Seemed to lose a little bit of its youthful acidity, but it's still drinking very nicely.
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3/20/2011 - DSaeedi wrote: 92 Points
I really had to give this wine some time to open up, because at first I could not understand it. When I eventually did, I realized how truly awesome this wine is. Kept raising and raising the score, and am now satisfied at 92. It is outstanding. Ripe fruit on the nose, especially ripe peach, lots of pineapple and some tropical papaya and melon. But it is the nonfruit flavors that really separate this wine. Earth, hay and autumn harvest components lead in the glass. Developing nose. Medium plus acidity and medium-full bodied. Hay, honey and peach really come through on the palate. Powerful, beautiful wine. Recommend a little breathing time. Outstanding.
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2/18/2011 - tooch wrote: 91 Points
Nice perfumed nose of crushed slate, citrus and white flowers. Intense palate that has great balance and a rigid spine of acidity. Very nice.
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1/3/2011 - tooch wrote: 92 Points
Racy nose of lime, lemons, wet slate and some herbs. The palate displays lush, dense tropical fruit with impeccable balance. Despite the density of the palate here, this doesn't approach sappy or sticky. The melange of fruit transition to a beautiful finish with clean, zippy acid. Schäfer-Fröhlich was able to produce a very classic spatlese that should benefit from cellaring, but if you're curious to try one now, you won't be disappointed.
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12/16/2010 - cartime wrote: 94 Points
Light golden straw color. Funky sulfur on the nose on opening. On the first day, this came across fairly dry for a Spatlese. Some white fruit and earthy minerals on the palate. After a couple days in the fridge, the sweetness is more prominent, and it's balanced by racy acidity. Nose of green apple, tropical fruits, kumquat and that earthy minerality again. Beautifully balanced on the palate, with sweet limes, green mango, Asian pear and salty minerals. Compared to 2006 and 2009, much leaner and more precise. Very eager to see how this develops over the next several years.
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12/6/2010 - tooch wrote: 92 Points
Great upfront acidity - just bursting with limes! Such a fresh wine with a great body that is lithe and airy. Razor sharp acidity fueled by citrus and minerals makes this a wonderful wine to pair with food.
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8/1/2010 - Michael Mortensen wrote:
Wow. Dekanteret umiddelbart inden indtag, og var firing on all cylinders. Noget man kunne drikke hver dag. Dejlig vin.
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7/17/2010 - kevin h wrote: 93 Points
Very interesting wine. What at first I thought was a whiff of sulphur on the nose was more mineral than matchsticks - a very minerally and earthy nose. No obvious fruit descriptors, more complex and nuanced than that - red fruits if anything. To taste, at the dry end of Spatlese, off-dry and lovely matt fruit, rounded and full with more of that mineral complexity. Earthy again, with lots going on. Very fine.
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6/19/2010 - salil wrote: 93 Points
Best bottle I've had yet. Gorgeous floral and mineral notes on top of fresh vivid lime, pear and cherry fruit that has razor sharp precision and the purity of Alpine spring water, very light on its feet with plenty of acidity and serious length. Fantastic Spätlese.
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6/13/2010 - 14frimaire wrote:
Much more tropical than earlier versions. I miss the steely spine. Perhaps its simply momentarily obscured? No shortage of acidity, though.
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5/10/2010 - salil wrote: 92 Points
Really impressive; fresh floral and mineral aromas leading into a palate full of vivid, bright fruit with really nice acids balancing the sweetness here.
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4/8/2010 - Kevin_C wrote: 93 Points
Fresh mineral bouquet with some asparagus notes after an hour or so. Perfect sweetness for me. Paints a broad stroke of lemon, lime and saline on the palate while maintaining its structure. A very nice quencher for spicy thai food.
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3/26/2010 - salil wrote: 93 Points
Superb again. Deep, rich fruit flavours, intense minerality and acidity that keeps it incredibly fresh and precise, almost crunchy.
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3/20/2010 - gunpwdr wrote: 94 Points
Nose: Gaseous funk, strongly evoking durian. Past the funk are apples, apricots, pears, and a hint of lime. Palate: Good, zesty citrus, apricots, and apples on the attack, with a hint of minerality. Excellent, crackling acidity develops on the mid-palate, showing this spatlese's impeccable balance. For my palate, this spatlese has the perfect levels of sugar, backed by ample fruit and acidity. An abundance of primary flavors make this eminently drinkable now, but the elements for developing secondary characteristics are there for those who want to lay these down for a bit.
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2/23/2010 - tantotinto wrote: 91 Points
Served at 46 degrees. Very pale yellow color. A full nose dominated by apple and mineral. Fabulous combination of lime, apple, peach and ginger. Bracing acidity. Creamy texture and a long, smooth and complex finish. There are a lot of good things going on here.
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1/6/2010 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 95 Points
Definitely the best pure spätlese I've had from the vintage so far. Almost like an '05, this one has it all -- rich lime-like fruit that's practically creamy in its lusciousness with a texture that simultaneously seems to leave icicles in its wake. Packed with material but sharp as a razor.
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12/20/2009 - salil wrote: 93 Points
From magnum. Really primary and packed with incredibly fresh, ripe fruit ranging from cherries and mandarin orange to more classic apple and lime flavours, and bright floral and minerally notes emerging with some air. Very rich and sweet, but there's really bright acidity underneath keeping it very fresh and balanced. Really impressive - I need to find more of this.
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12/4/2009 - pifcho wrote: 92 Points
Same texture and ripeness of the 2007 Bbockenauer Felsneck, but less floral and generally more masculine. Pale pear like color. Not giving much on the nose. Medium weight, which compares favorably to most other 2008s I have tried. Minerality and ripeness cover the tastebuds upfront followed by a long finish dominated by freshly cut juicy apples, quince and raspberries. Again, the powerful yet elegant style of Schafer Frohlich is evident here. This is could easily be mistaken for a 2007. Excellent.
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10/15/2009 - amateurwino wrote: 94 Points
Stone and dirt on nose - nice lightness in the midpalate; very pretty. 93-94
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