2009 Dr. Bürklin-Wolf Ruppertsberger Riesling

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 85.6 points

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  7/14/2014 - Man in Black wrote:

  The wine is clear and bright with a pale lemon-green colour and presence of legs. The nose is clean and developing, showing medium+ intensity aromas of green apples, fresh peaches, pineapple, lime, kerosene and hints of honeysuckle. The wine is off-dry with a high refreshing and zesty acidity. It has a medium alcohol and a medium body. It has pronounced intensity flavours of green apples, fresh peaches, lime, kerosene and hints of honeysuckle. The finish is medium+.
  
  It is a very good quality wine with great flavour intensity and a quite decent finish. It has a good balance between acidity and sweetness, but it could be even more complex. Can drink now, but it has enough acidity and fruit concentration to develop a bit more of complexity in the next 5-8 years.

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  5/19/2012 - honest bob wrote: 83 Points

  Talk about bottle variation, or rollercoaster development - five tastings over 12 months, and each quite different. This bottle today: flabby, placid, sweetish, devoid of minerality, acidity or real interest. A very polite reviewer might say "honeyed". 82P(?)

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  12/30/2011 - honest bob wrote: 88 Points

  More open and rustic, less refined than the previous bottle. Citrus, strong minerality, sweaty Pfalz sweetness. 88P

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  11/23/2011 - honest bob wrote: 88 Points

  My previous bottle must have been faulty, as this is just as I remember from tasting at the winery. Politer than the Wachenheimer, the Ruppertberger "villages" Riesling is clear, pure, well-balanced between steely acidity and juicy fruit. 88P

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  9/8/2011 - honest bob wrote: 82 Points

  Disappointing showing, even allowing that this is the entry-level offering from B-W. Thin, lemon-dominated, "winey" and acidic; a bundle of off-tones (acetone...); crabby, mean, sour finish. Might pull itself together in a year's time, currently on the qualitative level of a good supermarket wine. 82P(?)

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