2001 Weingut Heymann-Löwenstein Winninger Röttgen Riesling Großes Gewächs

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  10/30/2016 - Vintomas wrote: 90 Points

  Similar to the note in 2012, but further developed with more yellow apple and fried apple notes. Time to drink up unless you're even more into mature Riesling than I am.

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  6/7/2012 - Vintomas wrote: 90 Points

  Heymann-Löwenstein tasting (AuZone, Stockholm): Light golden colour. In the nose clear petrol notes and classical developed notes, yellow apple and other fruit, some spice, heather honey. Quite good concentration on the palate, spicy attack with honey, dried yellow fruit, good acidity, light alcohol feeling, spicy aftertaste with some bitterness. Impressive concentration, foody style, slightly disjointed, the most obvious alcoholic feeling of the flight, and a bitterness that’s high enough for me to mark it down slightly. I don’t expect it to improve with further cellaring.
  
  In a lineup of several H-L wines of the vintages 2001-2007, the alcohol and the bitterness, both detectable in several of the wines, was at their highest in this wine, and made it come across as somewhat disjointed and not too harmonic, although it also showed some wonderful aromas. I therefore scored this wine slightly lower, although at 90 points it was not a bad wine by any standard, and it hadn’t collapsed or anything like that. Probably, in a very strong lineup, its minor beauty defects were more obvious that they had been if it had been served on its own with food.

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  8/9/2003 - peternelson wrote: 93 Points

  Heritage: Peach, apricot, flowery, lush mouth, white chalk, med. a’s; great, fine, complex and balanced, but uncharacteristic of Ger. Ries.

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