2009 Koehler-Ruprecht Kallstadter Saumagen Riesling Auslese trocken

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  3/2/2022 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Asperg Wine Syndrome Tasting Group: First 2022 Tasting: Glass: Zalto Universal
  Popped and poured, drunk over two days. 1st day blind. Clear, medium golden color.
  Clean, medium+ intense, developing nose. Herbaceous, warm yellow stone fruit, hay. Deep and ethereal.
  Legally dry, with some noticeable residual sugar. Medium+, ripe acidity. 13% abv. On the palate hay, camomile, warm yellow fruit, cotton candy, candied fruit and lots of chalk. Round, balanced and quite elegant. Lacks a bit of tension on the mid palate. Long, mineral finish. Potential for at least another 5 years. 91-92

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  4/14/2021 - aquacongas wrote: 92 Points

  not blind, Magnum
  Few fruit but saline and really dry, not oxidized or corked. NOt at his end. Some wet stones in the finish. 92

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  11/14/2019 - forceberry wrote: 89 Points

  13% alcohol. Tasted blind in a tasting of fifteen dry 2009 Rieslings.
  
  Pale lemon yellow color. Waxy and somewhat developed nose with aromas of peach, some sweet white fruits, a little bit of herbal pilsner-kind of character, light zesty notes of citrus fruits and a hint of floral spice. The wine is ripe, broad and oily on the palate with full body and quite concentrated flavors of apricots, some floral spices, a little bit of developed waxy character, light honeyed tones, a hint of beeswax and a touch of quinine bitterness. The wine feels quite high in acidity. The finish is broad, oily and somewhat developed with medium-long flavors of peach, some pineapple, a little bit of exotic spices, light bittersweet notes of spicy buckwheat honey, a hint of nectarine and a touch of beeswax.
  
  A noticeably big, ripe and even somewhat unctuous Riesling; in this tasting this was undoubtedly among the heaviest ones. The wine shows impressive depth and complexity, but the overall feel is perhaps a bit too heavy and ponderous for my taste, making this wine feel somewhat blowzy and even slightly tired in comparison with the lighter and more delicate Rieslings we had in this tasting. However, many people thought this was one of the most impressive wines in the tasting and scored it accordingly. I really can't disagree, but to me the wine could've used a bit more freshness and elegance. I have a hunch this particular vintage is going to have quite limited aging potential. Scored a total of 39 points, making the wine finish in the 3rd place.

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  4/21/2019 - jkoenen wrote: 94 Points

  Clean, cristalclear and precise.
  Peat, resin, reine claudee plums, chalk, lemonpreserve, yeast, tripel ale, iodine, old foudres, hyacinth.... I could go on and on.
  Very elegant and complex. Thirstqueching and cerebral.
  A wonderful wine in a unique style that reminds me of Chablis from Raveneau.

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  2/4/2017 - Tackleberry wrote: 91 Points

  Matured well, could be more elegant, but powerful on the palate, ripe fruit aromatics like red apples and pears, long aftertaste. No easy-drinking wine....

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