Nose: subtle, mineral sure, but some peachy and almost orangey fruit too
Palate: full (due in part to sugar), absolutely perfectly balanced between sugar and acid, honey dripping ripe peaches and pears 🤤. Rich, but not heavy. Orange notes again, not had those in a Riesling before!
Day 2: waxy mandarin notes, really pure and luscious
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What a beauty! Light gold colour, very expressive and complex nose with honey, lemon zest, apricot, pineapple and a slight hint of petrol. Very mineral, almost salty. On the palate the lemon and pineapple gain another dimension due to the sweetnes and remembers of lemon chewing gum and all gets balanced with the beautiful acidity. The finish is very long, and after each sip you just want another one. Delicious.
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TWS Group German Tasting (Must & Lees): This definitely showed better than the last time I opened a bottle. The main difference was the prominence of the acidity and the relative freshness that brought to proceedings - and I'm sure it's variation in the taster rather than the wine.
Ripe peach, mango, slate- there's still a tropical profile that is a bit much for me, and (as ever) I'd like more acidity - but it's very drinkable.
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Germany (Must and Lees, N1): Quite a pale yellow. Possibly my senses were on the wane at this point, but I thought this had a strong nose of curry, like a chicken achari with that spicy pickled citrus element. Hey-ho, not what I was expecting but not unpleasant either. Medium sweetness, mild tropical fruit, pretty rich.
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I found this slightly cloying. The sweetness, tropical flavour profile and density on the palate overwhelmed the acidity for my taste. Just a hint of petrol on the nose, some banana, mango and very ripe peach, something reminiscent of wet stones. Not hugely sweet- probably medium - but quite flat on the palate: a little grippy, chewy, syrupy. Reminiscent of the juice from a can of tinned peaches. There is some acidity peeking out but it's too little too late to give the wine much in the way of freshness.
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Golden yellow. Nose is of rocky minerality, pears, ripe apples, citrus, and goes into tropical fruits with some pineapple and mango notes. Surprisingly, no TDN/petrol notes for this 13-year-old Riesling. Palate retains structure with a firm acidic backbone, and terrific length. Medium sweetness is kept in check by the high acidity. Terrific when paired with a couple of Thai curries tonight. This certainly has the legs to go for a good 5-10 years (or more), but it’s really singing at the moment. Wish I had more!
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Yellow color; fairly thick and sweet but mineral laden and a powerhouse of a Spätlese, unctuous but less about the residual and more about the dry extract and material, yellow fruited more in the tropical realm- banana mango apricot, glossy texture, not slate driven but mineral and late acid kick in on the finish; not my favorite style but tasty and clearly noble.
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Surprisingly sweet for a Spaetlese. It was enjoyable for what it is, but did not match with the any of the courses. It would have been better with a nice corn chowder.
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Cork wet almost through. Light colour. Clean nose, very mineral. Taste also mineral, light, not that complex. Tasting against 2010 and 2011. After 2 hours bottle opening not much difference as opposed to the other 2.
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1st bottle of 6 from my final case of these. Not showing as well as previous bottles from other sources, but I think it's just a case if slight bottle variation as this is still a very good wine and now just entering its prime drinking window. Beautiful scent of melon and exotic fruit. No heavy petroleum notes. Sweet, but not the ripe heavy sweetness you get from some spatlese. This is elegant and light on its feet. Very high acidity, but fairly well balanced by the sweetness. Oily viscous mouthfeel. Generally, I've grown a bit tired of riesling the last couple of years, but this wine gives me a lot of easy pleasure.
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An evening with wine geeks (Ristorante da Salvo, Stuttgart): Glass: WMF white wine Beautiful experience to taste the two Spätlesen side by side. Clear, very youthful pale citrus golden color. Lots of citrus and ripe exotic fruit, lively, kicking acidity at only 7,5% abv. Still very (almost too) young, good tension. Very joyful and animating. Could drink the whole bottle on my own. Give it around 5+ years to fully blossom. 91++
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Leaking cork. Nose was pretrol and dried apricot. Tastes a lot like canned mandarin oranges and dried apricot. The acid is just barely enough but the remaining CO2 gave it the extra push it needed to be really enjoyable. Highly doubt any residual SO2 but the pallet has a lingering taste of it. Maybe its just me.
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Nose a bit closed still. In the taste ripe pears, herbs and minerals. Sweet and juicy mandarines on the palate, rich texture, great underlying acidity. A treat!
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Really one of the best values and best off dry Riesling not from the bigger well known vineyards. Fantastic mouthfeel, slight petrol but acacia, canned peaches, dried Turkish apricot, golden delicious apple with notes of green tea and thyme. Excellent length of finish. Can’t believe these were sub $30 Spatlese. Rivaling most Donnhoff, Prum, Molitor etc.
Maybe I am conservative with this score. Bummer as this was my last bottle.
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Still painfully young, very focussed and energetic. Nose and palate are dominated by fresh fruit nuances like peach, pear, raspberry and lemon zest. Seems quite swewet, yet the sweetness is beautifully framed by high levels of soft fruit-like acidity. Beautiful now, but I feel this will improve considerably in 3 years time, and wil easily last to age 20.
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I've had some bottle variation since the amazing bottle I had nearly two years ago. Initially, this had the incredible menagerie of flavors but appeared a bit too sweet, slightly unbalanced. Next day, the flavors were sublime, with tropical fruit, flowers, minerals/saline, and a great spine of acid. I have only two more bottles, and I hope I have the willpower to bury them for a while.
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Delicate, juicy and harmonious wine of fine fruit, ripeness and minerality. Ripe apple, stone fruit, honey and little pineapple. Freshly-cut herbs, (white) florals and finest salty minerality showing smooth, ripe and mouth-filling with delicate acidity pulling through on the palate. Beautiful and very enjoyable now, but with good potential ahead.
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Bright deep hay in colour; nose of sweet ripe green and red apples, some pears and a touch of honey. Nice and smooth on the palate where I'm getting some apricot liqueur, ripe green apples, and some honeyed minerally pineapples; acidity balances out the flavours; has a very nice finish to go along with it. An excellent spatlese with an excellent price tag when I bought this; have one bottle left, wish I bought a case when I had the chance.
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Opened the first of our bottles on this evening to accompany spicy chicken stir-fry, and it did a wonderful job. A pale yellow in the glass with long legs, the nose features apricot and green apple principally, with touches of white flowers and slate. Very good intensity amidst medium concentration, with just enough acidity to keep it from getting cloying. Actually, less acidic than I'd expected, and also not as much stoniness as I thought there'd be. Also a bit of funky atmosphere around the dinner table, so that may have distracted me from really focusing on this fine riesling.
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This is a really good wine, but have to say the nose is a little reticent. Great stony mineral and orchard fruit with some spices and a tangerine acidity. Very sweet for a Spatlese, nearing Auslese levels, but probably not any botrytis.
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Attack of ripe stone and tropical fruit and mineral/stone. Pineapple, tropical fruit salad, ripe peach, lime. A rich mouthfeel, med+ acid and sweetness. The finish was surprisingly not very long. A yummy wine drinking very well now.
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After my last bottle (which was a near-religious experience), my expectations were crazy high. On open, this was excellent juice and consistent with previous note but with a little less oomph in every dimension than the last bottle.
However, Chukon99's note is dead on for what happens after a few days. A wonderful floral character emerges, and a complexity of flavors (fruit, floral, honey) that is fantastic. I don't imagine my remaining five bottles will survive long.
Not quite the knockout that my last bottle was, but damn good all the same. Bright, piercing citrus and pear fruit accented by gentle floral and herbal elements, though the mineral character and powerful acidity that made the last bottle such a wow experience aren't quite as evident here.
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Great QPR on this riesling Spatlese. Straw in color, with aromas of pineapple, apricot, and peach. Opulent and ripe indeed - this is powerful stuff. Great balanced acidity and a long finish with a good deal of complexity. Still quite sweet so some may find this a bit overbearing, but this wine has great potential.
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About 400 milliseconds into drinking this wine, I stopped thinking and started enjoying. This is probably the most enjoyable young Spatlese I have ever had (enough that I ordered all I could find an hour later). Heady perfumed nose. Stone fruit, pineapple, and some exotic, tropical fruits. Medium+ body, sugars dialed up to 10, but acid dialed up to 11.
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Just a spectacular Spätlese. Incredibly pure pear, green apple and citrus fruits tinged with high toned floral and herbal notes with a vivid crystalline/stony character infusing each sip. There's amazing freshness and balance here, moderate sweetness perfectly balanced by powerful acidity that keeps it very light on its feet and really precise, and each glass seems to vanish in minutes. Fantastic.
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Another 2009 spatlese which is in a great place right now. A lot of energy right out of the bottle, which complements very well the round orchard fruit on the palate. Nice lemon bite on the finish gives it a lot of freshness. The balance here is perfect and the length quite admirable. Tough to not pour yourself another glass. 92+
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As others have noted, this bottle is super young, but still offered quite a lot of pleasure. The palate is basically an explosion of fruit at this point. Lychees, white peaches, and apples dominated, with maybe a bit of citrus lurking in the background. Unfortunately, I found it to be a bit lacking in precision and minerality. Don't get me wrong, this is still a very nice wine. It's just that the sweetness, while not cloying, is a bit overwhelming and makes the wine seem a little one-dimensional. Wish I'd bought more to see how this develops with some time in the cellar.
Day 7 update: After drinking about half the bottle over the first two nights, I put the cork back in, set it on the counter, and promptly forgot about it. Found it and expected the worst, but got WOW!! instead. Totally different wine after sitting for a week. Much more aromatic, with sweet honey and a slightly floral quality. Flavors are more layered on the palate and some of the tart notes have receded. This has transformed from a decent wine to an excellent one. Just cannot get over how much this changed while opened. Suggest giving this a lot of time in the cellar to start showing its best. Upping the score from 88 to 92.
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Just super young here. We opened last night and things were a little shut down other than a little sulphur and some pitted fruit. Tonight this pale gold wine is offering up a good amount of white flowers on the nose, and some honeysuckle. White peach, some green apple tartness and solid mineral to keep the wine elegant. A touch of sweet ginger root. Medium long finish for a Spatlese this young. I will definitely keep the other bottles in cellar for as long as possible.
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small puffs of early petrol with white flowers and peaches with tropical fruits and a hint of sweet apple. Really pleasant but lacking acidity for my palate. I suspect the forward fruits will integrate and this will be a beast but right now it is just too one dimensional.
Deep mineral note - cold & wet schiefer rocks. Apple blossom , green apple, kerosene, pineapple, apricot, rhubarb, grapefruit. Silky smooth mouthfeel, high concentration of aromas, ripe yet fresh adidity, stoney core minerality, perfectly balanced sweetness. Herbs, spice and schiste on the back end, and a really long finish. Lots of pure riesling pleasure at this early stage. Benefits from hours or days of air though, too much sulphur on the straight pop'n'pour. Long future ahead.
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mouthwatering acidity to balance the explosion of tropical fruit expression on the nose; difficult to assess when it will be at its best; acidity will keep the wine alive for the next decades easily. delicious.... but could benefit from just a little less acidity.
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Mastodont: Mosel from 2009 (Hemmavid): Non-Blind. Had immediately. Mild, wide, refined nose. Balanced entry with very fine acids, multi component and breathtaking fruit. Somersaults before swallowing. WUNDERBAR!!! Most ppl's second wine of the evening.
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Light yellow colour with a slight green tint. Intensive, young and complex nose. Lots of ripe fruit (think peach, nectarine), meadow flowers and more substantial aromas like honey and vanilla, even. All this in a very effortless, light and elegant way. The palate is mid-weight with a slightly sweet feeling, balanced with nice acidity. Fresh, effortless and refreshing. Aromas nicely in line with the nose. Longish aftertaste. Elegant and airy. Very high quality, elegant and above all refreshing wine. Effortless and complex.
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This young spätlese has a pretty gold hue, slightly imbued with green. I popped and poured and drank for a couple of days. The operative word here is young. The wine has plenty of ripeness and spice. It is really full while still being a little hollow on the swallow. A ton of potential here, but these need to sit a spell.
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This has an intense complex fruit nose. Kiwi, tangerine, lemon and a little salt in the mouth. The acidity is a bit drying but this is young. Let this crying infant sleep a few years and wake up in a better mood. There is a lot of potential here 92+.
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4/4/2024 - DrDave88 Likes this wine:
Nose: subtle, mineral sure, but some peachy and almost orangey fruit too
Palate: full (due in part to sugar), absolutely perfectly balanced between sugar and acid, honey dripping ripe peaches and pears 🤤. Rich, but not heavy. Orange notes again, not had those in a Riesling before!
Day 2: waxy mandarin notes, really pure and luscious
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1/4/2024 - sfqwino wrote: 88 Points
Rather straightforward and lacking acidity to balance the sweetness. Very little evolution that left me yearning for a bit more complexity.
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7/21/2023 - davidsa Likes this wine: 94 Points
What a beauty!
Light gold colour, very expressive and complex nose with honey, lemon zest, apricot, pineapple and a slight hint of petrol. Very mineral, almost salty.
On the palate the lemon and pineapple gain another dimension due to the sweetnes and remembers of lemon chewing gum and all gets balanced with the beautiful acidity.
The finish is very long, and after each sip you just want another one.
Delicious.
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6/21/2023 - Joshvoulters Likes this wine: 88 Points
TWS Group German Tasting (Must & Lees): This definitely showed better than the last time I opened a bottle. The main difference was the prominence of the acidity and the relative freshness that brought to proceedings - and I'm sure it's variation in the taster rather than the wine.
Ripe peach, mango, slate- there's still a tropical profile that is a bit much for me, and (as ever) I'd like more acidity - but it's very drinkable.
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6/21/2023 - oenanthe Likes this wine: 88 Points
Germany (Must and Lees, N1): Quite a pale yellow. Possibly my senses were on the wane at this point, but I thought this had a strong nose of curry, like a chicken achari with that spicy pickled citrus element. Hey-ho, not what I was expecting but not unpleasant either. Medium sweetness, mild tropical fruit, pretty rich.
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5/14/2023 - Joshvoulters Likes this wine: 86 Points
I found this slightly cloying. The sweetness, tropical flavour profile and density on the palate overwhelmed the acidity for my taste. Just a hint of petrol on the nose, some banana, mango and very ripe peach, something reminiscent of wet stones. Not hugely sweet- probably medium - but quite flat on the palate: a little grippy, chewy, syrupy. Reminiscent of the juice from a can of tinned peaches. There is some acidity peeking out but it's too little too late to give the wine much in the way of freshness.
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3/24/2023 - gbanks Likes this wine:
Whew! Sweetness, meet mineral and acid. Nice secondary notes of fall leaves and musk emerging. And only 7% means that bottle disappeared right quick
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9/6/2022 - streethawk Likes this wine:
Golden yellow. Nose is of rocky minerality, pears, ripe apples, citrus, and goes into tropical fruits with some pineapple and mango notes. Surprisingly, no TDN/petrol notes for this 13-year-old Riesling. Palate retains structure with a firm acidic backbone, and terrific length. Medium sweetness is kept in check by the high acidity. Terrific when paired with a couple of Thai curries tonight. This certainly has the legs to go for a good 5-10 years (or more), but it’s really singing at the moment. Wish I had more!
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7/12/2021 - Rezy13 Likes this wine:
Yellow color; fairly thick and sweet but mineral laden and a powerhouse of a Spätlese, unctuous but less about the residual and more about the dry extract and material, yellow fruited more in the tropical realm- banana mango apricot, glossy texture, not slate driven but mineral and late acid kick in on the finish; not my favorite style but tasty and clearly noble.
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6/15/2021 - Labrador wrote: 80 Points
Surprisingly sweet for a Spaetlese. It was enjoyable for what it is, but did not match with the any of the courses. It would have been better with a nice corn chowder.
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4/14/2021 - aquacongas wrote: 91 Points
blind, Magnum
not my style but sweetness is in the background and still fine acidity. 91
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9/15/2020 - PeterMole wrote:
Cork wet almost through. Light colour. Clean nose, very mineral. Taste also mineral, light, not that complex. Tasting against 2010 and 2011. After 2 hours bottle opening not much difference as opposed to the other 2.
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3/25/2020 - RolfT Likes this wine: 92 Points
1st bottle of 6 from my final case of these. Not showing as well as previous bottles from other sources, but I think it's just a case if slight bottle variation as this is still a very good wine and now just entering its prime drinking window.
Beautiful scent of melon and exotic fruit. No heavy petroleum notes. Sweet, but not the ripe heavy sweetness you get from some spatlese. This is elegant and light on its feet. Very high acidity, but fairly well balanced by the sweetness. Oily viscous mouthfeel. Generally, I've grown a bit tired of riesling the last couple of years, but this wine gives me a lot of easy pleasure.
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9/27/2019 - Labrador Likes this wine: 89 Points
No formal notes, but this producer and, in particular, this wine were very good. It went very well with Chinese.
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3/29/2019 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 91 Points
An evening with wine geeks (Ristorante da Salvo, Stuttgart): Glass: WMF white wine
Beautiful experience to taste the two Spätlesen side by side. Clear, very youthful pale citrus golden color. Lots of citrus and ripe exotic fruit, lively, kicking acidity at only 7,5% abv. Still very (almost too) young, good tension. Very joyful and animating. Could drink the whole bottle on my own. Give it around 5+ years to fully blossom. 91++
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12/9/2018 - I1bearup wrote: 90 Points
Leaking cork. Nose was pretrol and dried apricot. Tastes a lot like canned mandarin oranges and dried apricot. The acid is just barely enough but the remaining CO2 gave it the extra push it needed to be really enjoyable. Highly doubt any residual SO2 but the pallet has a lingering taste of it. Maybe its just me.
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10/12/2018 - dvansteenderen Likes this wine: 92 Points
Nose a bit closed still. In the taste ripe pears, herbs and minerals. Sweet and juicy mandarines on the palate, rich texture, great underlying acidity. A treat!
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10/6/2018 - Champagneinhand Likes this wine: 93 Points
Really one of the best values and best off dry Riesling not from the bigger well known vineyards. Fantastic mouthfeel, slight petrol but acacia, canned peaches, dried Turkish apricot, golden delicious apple with notes of green tea and thyme. Excellent length of finish. Can’t believe these were sub $30 Spatlese. Rivaling most Donnhoff, Prum, Molitor etc.
Maybe I am conservative with this score. Bummer as this was my last bottle.
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8/5/2018 - Labrador Likes this wine: 86 Points
A very enjoyable Spatlese. It was fresh and balanced, but light in color and on the palate. I suspect it will put on some. weight in the coming years.
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6/5/2018 - Duncan H Likes this wine: 89 Points
Bright silver-lime in colour. Oily - lemon nose with hints of grapefruit. Not particularly complex on the palate, but still very nice.
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1/7/2018 - jkoenen wrote: 92 Points
Still painfully young, very focussed and energetic. Nose and palate are dominated by fresh fruit nuances like peach, pear, raspberry and lemon zest. Seems quite swewet, yet the sweetness is beautifully framed by high levels of soft fruit-like acidity.
Beautiful now, but I feel this will improve considerably in 3 years time, and wil easily last to age 20.
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12/21/2016 - ekessler wrote:
A bit sweet for Spatlese, but well balanced. Slight funk blew off quickly. Citrus, honey, melon. Delicious.
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8/25/2016 - berlinhotel Likes this wine: 90 Points
90+
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3/29/2016 - RolfT Likes this wine: 94 Points
Fresh yet complex. Sweet yet balanced by a perfect acidity. A little bit to sweet still but very near perfect.
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8/27/2015 - indiscriminate palate wrote: 92 Points
I've had some bottle variation since the amazing bottle I had nearly two years ago. Initially, this had the incredible menagerie of flavors but appeared a bit too sweet, slightly unbalanced. Next day, the flavors were sublime, with tropical fruit, flowers, minerals/saline, and a great spine of acid. I have only two more bottles, and I hope I have the willpower to bury them for a while.
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8/5/2015 - WineCellarTV Likes this wine: 92 Points
Delicate, juicy and harmonious wine of fine fruit, ripeness and minerality.
Ripe apple, stone fruit, honey and little pineapple. Freshly-cut herbs, (white) florals and finest salty minerality showing smooth, ripe and mouth-filling with delicate acidity pulling through on the palate.
Beautiful and very enjoyable now, but with good potential ahead.
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5/8/2015 - AMC Eagle wrote: 94 Points
Bright deep hay in colour; nose of sweet ripe green and red apples, some pears and a touch of honey. Nice and smooth on the palate where I'm getting some apricot liqueur, ripe green apples, and some honeyed minerally pineapples; acidity balances out the flavours; has a very nice finish to go along with it. An excellent spatlese with an excellent price tag when I bought this; have one bottle left, wish I bought a case when I had the chance.
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3/13/2015 - Acohen Likes this wine: 91 Points
Very sweet with nice acidity, pineapple, minerality
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3/3/2015 - wicozani Likes this wine: 91 Points
Opened the first of our bottles on this evening to accompany spicy chicken stir-fry, and it did a wonderful job. A pale yellow in the glass with long legs, the nose features apricot and green apple principally, with touches of white flowers and slate. Very good intensity amidst medium concentration, with just enough acidity to keep it from getting cloying. Actually, less acidic than I'd expected, and also not as much stoniness as I thought there'd be. Also a bit of funky atmosphere around the dinner table, so that may have distracted me from really focusing on this fine riesling.
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2/25/2014 - Champagneinhand Likes this wine: 92 Points
This is a really good wine, but have to say the nose is a little reticent. Great stony mineral and orchard fruit with some spices and a tangerine acidity. Very sweet for a Spatlese, nearing Auslese levels, but probably not any botrytis.
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2/2/2014 - indiscriminate palate wrote: 92 Points
Consistent with past notes. Beautiful! I love this wine.
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12/29/2013 - ruth3 wrote:
pineapple, tropical fruit, lime, after 2 days softer with rose petals
with a lemon tart
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11/28/2013 - indiscriminate palate wrote: 93 Points
Attack of ripe stone and tropical fruit and mineral/stone. Pineapple, tropical fruit salad, ripe peach, lime. A rich mouthfeel, med+ acid and sweetness. The finish was surprisingly not very long. A yummy wine drinking very well now.
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10/19/2013 - indiscriminate palate wrote: 94 Points
After my last bottle (which was a near-religious experience), my expectations were crazy high. On open, this was excellent juice and consistent with previous note but with a little less oomph in every dimension than the last bottle.
However, Chukon99's note is dead on for what happens after a few days. A wonderful floral character emerges, and a complexity of flavors (fruit, floral, honey) that is fantastic. I don't imagine my remaining five bottles will survive long.
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10/19/2013 - salil wrote: 92 Points
Not quite the knockout that my last bottle was, but damn good all the same. Bright, piercing citrus and pear fruit accented by gentle floral and herbal elements, though the mineral character and powerful acidity that made the last bottle such a wow experience aren't quite as evident here.
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10/10/2013 - GoBlue2002 Likes this wine: 91 Points
Great QPR on this riesling Spatlese.
Straw in color, with aromas of pineapple, apricot, and peach. Opulent and ripe indeed - this is powerful stuff. Great balanced acidity and a long finish with a good deal of complexity.
Still quite sweet so some may find this a bit overbearing, but this wine has great potential.
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9/12/2013 - indiscriminate palate wrote: 97 Points
About 400 milliseconds into drinking this wine, I stopped thinking and started enjoying. This is probably the most enjoyable young Spatlese I have ever had (enough that I ordered all I could find an hour later). Heady perfumed nose. Stone fruit, pineapple, and some exotic, tropical fruits. Medium+ body, sugars dialed up to 10, but acid dialed up to 11.
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9/12/2013 - salil wrote: 95 Points
Just a spectacular Spätlese. Incredibly pure pear, green apple and citrus fruits tinged with high toned floral and herbal notes with a vivid crystalline/stony character infusing each sip. There's amazing freshness and balance here, moderate sweetness perfectly balanced by powerful acidity that keeps it very light on its feet and really precise, and each glass seems to vanish in minutes. Fantastic.
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6/26/2013 - pifcho Likes this wine: 91 Points
Another good bottle. Not as much energy as the first bottle, but worked great on a hot day...
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4/11/2013 - pifcho Likes this wine: 92 Points
Another 2009 spatlese which is in a great place right now. A lot of energy right out of the bottle, which complements very well the round orchard fruit on the palate. Nice lemon bite on the finish gives it a lot of freshness. The balance here is perfect and the length quite admirable. Tough to not pour yourself another glass. 92+
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3/30/2013 - chukon99 Likes this wine: 92 Points
As others have noted, this bottle is super young, but still offered quite a lot of pleasure. The palate is basically an explosion of fruit at this point. Lychees, white peaches, and apples dominated, with maybe a bit of citrus lurking in the background. Unfortunately, I found it to be a bit lacking in precision and minerality. Don't get me wrong, this is still a very nice wine. It's just that the sweetness, while not cloying, is a bit overwhelming and makes the wine seem a little one-dimensional. Wish I'd bought more to see how this develops with some time in the cellar.
Day 7 update: After drinking about half the bottle over the first two nights, I put the cork back in, set it on the counter, and promptly forgot about it. Found it and expected the worst, but got WOW!! instead. Totally different wine after sitting for a week. Much more aromatic, with sweet honey and a slightly floral quality. Flavors are more layered on the palate and some of the tart notes have receded. This has transformed from a decent wine to an excellent one. Just cannot get over how much this changed while opened. Suggest giving this a lot of time in the cellar to start showing its best. Upping the score from 88 to 92.
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3/22/2013 - Champagneinhand Likes this wine: 91 Points
Just super young here. We opened last night and things were a little shut down other than a little sulphur and some pitted fruit. Tonight this pale gold wine is offering up a good amount of white flowers on the nose, and some honeysuckle. White peach, some green apple tartness and solid mineral to keep the wine elegant. A touch of sweet ginger root. Medium long finish for a Spatlese this young. I will definitely keep the other bottles in cellar for as long as possible.
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1/12/2013 - Acohen wrote: 91 Points
Very nice tropical fruit and crisp apple with good acidity.
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11/20/2012 - S1 wrote:
small puffs of early petrol with white flowers and peaches with tropical fruits and a hint of sweet apple. Really pleasant but lacking acidity for my palate. I suspect the forward fruits will integrate and this will be a beast but right now it is just too one dimensional.
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9/13/2012 - Finare Vinare wrote: 92 Points
Deep mineral note - cold & wet schiefer rocks. Apple blossom , green apple, kerosene, pineapple, apricot, rhubarb, grapefruit. Silky smooth mouthfeel, high concentration of aromas, ripe yet fresh adidity, stoney core minerality, perfectly balanced sweetness. Herbs, spice and schiste on the back end, and a really long finish. Lots of pure riesling pleasure at this early stage. Benefits from hours or days of air though, too much sulphur on the straight pop'n'pour. Long future ahead.
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8/5/2012 - costamalfitana wrote: 93 Points
mouthwatering acidity to balance the explosion of tropical fruit expression on the nose; difficult to assess when it will be at its best; acidity will keep the wine alive for the next decades easily. delicious.... but could benefit from just a little less acidity.
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6/19/2012 - quickben wrote: 93 Points
Beautiful. Balance of acidity, fruit and residual sugar - this was gorgeous and just a shame that it was only bottle in cellar
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6/8/2012 - StefanAkiko wrote: 94 Points
Mastodont: Mosel from 2009 (Hemmavid): Non-Blind. Had immediately.
Mild, wide, refined nose. Balanced entry with very fine acids, multi component and breathtaking fruit. Somersaults before swallowing. WUNDERBAR!!!
Most ppl's second wine of the evening.
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7/5/2011 - henkka wrote:
Light yellow colour with a slight green tint. Intensive, young and complex nose. Lots of ripe fruit (think peach, nectarine), meadow flowers and more substantial aromas like honey and vanilla, even. All this in a very effortless, light and elegant way. The palate is mid-weight with a slightly sweet feeling, balanced with nice acidity. Fresh, effortless and refreshing. Aromas nicely in line with the nose. Longish aftertaste. Elegant and airy. Very high quality, elegant and above all refreshing wine. Effortless and complex.
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2/3/2011 - amateurwino wrote:
Very pleasing, like the kabinett.
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11/28/2010 - Charlie Carnes wrote: 90 Points
This young spätlese has a pretty gold hue, slightly imbued with green. I popped and poured and drank for a couple of days. The operative word here is young. The wine has plenty of ripeness and spice. It is really full while still being a little hollow on the swallow. A ton of potential here, but these need to sit a spell.
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10/31/2010 - bambam wrote: 92 Points
This has an intense complex fruit nose. Kiwi, tangerine, lemon and a little salt in the mouth. The acidity is a bit drying but this is young. Let this crying infant sleep a few years and wake up in a better mood. There is a lot of potential here 92+.
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6/12/2010 - idelcombe wrote: 89 Points
Intense grapefruit and peach with long finish.
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