Purchased directly from the winery after a nice tasting with the owner, Saskia. This is a great bottle and I thoroughly enjoyed it (like I do every good riesling) but it wasn’t quite as amazing as I had anticipated given the provenance and vintage. Not surprisingly, has a medium dark golden hue coming out of the bottle with very slight brown tones beginning to emerge. The nose is all secondary and tertiary fruit: candied lemon, ripe mango, grilled pineapple and caramel. What took away from the score slightly was the lack of acidity here to fully integrate the wine. This to me drank more like an Auslese than a drier GG. Still high quality overall with the wonderful telltale petrol notes rounding out the finish. Enjoyable and definitely interesting but a bit off balance at this point.
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11/12/2023 - hrazdiiv Likes this wine: 91 Points
Purchased directly from the winery after a nice tasting with the owner, Saskia. This is a great bottle and I thoroughly enjoyed it (like I do every good riesling) but it wasn’t quite as amazing as I had anticipated given the provenance and vintage. Not surprisingly, has a medium dark golden hue coming out of the bottle with very slight brown tones beginning to emerge. The nose is all secondary and tertiary fruit: candied lemon, ripe mango, grilled pineapple and caramel. What took away from the score slightly was the lack of acidity here to fully integrate the wine. This to me drank more like an Auslese than a drier GG. Still high quality overall with the wonderful telltale petrol notes rounding out the finish. Enjoyable and definitely interesting but a bit off balance at this point.
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5/22/2019 - "Rhône Rider" Likes this wine: 90 Points
Hageslange, eple, tropiske frukter, gule plommer, mineraler. Lang, litt grønn slutt. 90
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2/28/2018 - "Rhône Rider" Likes this wine: 90 Points
Rik, moden stil, petro, tørket frukt, litt tropisk preg. Integrert syre, rik, men også litt slapp. Bra lengde. 90
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6/20/2017 - Zweder wrote: 94 Points
Monthly Tuesday group "The Dead Sparrow" #020: Riesling Grosses Gewächs (By JdB): In the bouquet white and yellow fruits, apple and pineapple as well as some petrol. On the palate herbs, white fruits, passion fruit, stone and minerals. Beautiful juicy acidity. Beautiful wine.
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