2010 Müller-Catoir Haardter Mandelring Scheurebe Auslese

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 93.3 points

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  2/25/2019 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  #22-11, 9.5% abv. From half bottle. This wine hasn't budged since I bought it eight years ago. The nose is complex, with herbs, passion fruit, mangoes, and a whole host of other good stuff. The palate is quite sweet, but balanced by ample acidity. A lot of the same tropical flavours are there, but there's an extra dose of tart passionfruit acidity on the back end that gives this balance. I did pick up a nascent hint of bitterness here, but all in all this is a brilliantly delicious bottle of scheurebe. It may not hit the heights of Schwarz, but I'd happily drink this anyway.

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  9/14/2018 - Pancreatitis wrote:

  A heady whiff of botrytis on the nose. Ripe tropical notes on the palate, guava and pineapple, unctuous textured, long, delicious!

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  4/19/2015 - salil wrote: 92 Points

  Rieslings, Rhones, Richebourg, and more at The Bristol (The Bristol, Chicago): Doesn't show quite the complexity of the HGS-era Scheurebes, but this is damn good nonetheless. Packed with ripe passionfruit, nectarine, and pink grapefruit flavours with honeyed accents and a bright acid spine beneath keeping it very well balanced. Lovely wine, very fun to drink, with a glass disappearing rather quickly.

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  4/19/2015 - acyso wrote: 93 Points

  Salil does Chicago; 4/16/2015-4/19/2015 (Chicago, IL): #22-11, 9.5% abv. From half bottle. Moderately pale colour. Extremely pronounced passion fruit on the nose and palate. Very floral, but dense at the same time. Think of that orange-coloured passion-fruit sauce you put on desserts. This would function as a more than suitable replacement for that in a pinch. Exuberant and long. With a bit of air, this became even more intense, with the tropical fruit completely exploding out of the glass. A bit of mango started to start popping up too.

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  8/8/2013 - acyso wrote: 95 Points

  #22-11. From half bottle. Very pale in colour. Big and bold. Insanely fragrant and heady bouquet, with tons of botrytis spice and a dominant note of ripe pineapple, with a stony mineral inflection. A dessert-style Auslese, this is a coiled spring, with lots of tension between the intense sweetness and acidity. Slightly thick texture, and noticeable minerality, despite everything. Again spice and pineapple notes on the palate, with lots and lots of extract and stuffing. Long, long finish. Freakin' awesome, if a tad esoteric. Left the remaining half half-bottle in the fridge overnight, where it developed much more aromatic fruit flavours, with a powerful passionfruit note showing on the palate as well.

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