2004 Freiherr Heyl zu Herrnsheim Niersteiner Brudersberg Riesling Großes Gewächs

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 91 points

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  7/20/2016 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 91 Points

  Pop and poured. Drank over 4 nights sealed under vacuum.
  Somehow extremely tight and underwhelming on first night. Performed much better with lots of air time and on the last 2 nights.
  Appearance is clear, pale intensity, gold colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium intensity, with aromas of ripe peach, nectarine, honey melon, slight pineapple, flinty and briny minerality, yellow florals, soil, and small whiffs of petroleum oil. Developed.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity that somehow feels like its dipping and going down into medium+ levels, medium- alcohol (12.5%), medium+ body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of ripe peach, nectarine, honey melon ?sweet guava, slight pineapple, flinty and briny minerality, and bit of petroleum oil. Rounded medium+ finish.
  Good quality. Enjoyable with lots of air. I like the honey melon bit. Not sure how well the acidity will last though.

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  12/5/2013 - Average Wine Guy (MH) wrote: 92 Points

  The 2004 Freiherr Heyl zu Herrnsheim Niersteiner Brudersberg Riesling Großes Gewächs is bright gold in colour with a nose of honeyed apricots, pears and peaches. Pretty and juicy nose with some sort of development of slight pine nuts and hints of kerosene.
  
  On the palate, a saline entry of lemon puree that burst into ripe pears, apricots and slight fleshy peaches. The palate journey ends on a developed nuttiness and hints of kerosene notes coming up as it progresses. Medium (+) finish with good salinity that is not too overpowering but very balanced in style. A nice gentle acidity that lifts the mid palate, creating good structure in the wine. What can be pretty attractive here is its slightly ripe style but yet maintaining a palate of cleansing freshness. Still have years ahead on this one.
  
  A very versatile wine in terms of food and wine pairing nonetheless, from seafood, to lightly creamed pasta, to truffle risottos; this wine has its way to showcase itself as a friendly companion indeed.

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  8/30/2012 - Alex H wrote: 88 Points

  Noble gold. Chalk and crushed rocks with Veins of smoky minerality throughout with just a punch of passionfruits zest on the nose. Mouth whetting acidity with a touch of kero oiliness atop slightly sweet grass and interestingly guava notes. More steely then opulent. More noble aristocrat then royalty but still good. V appetizing wine

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  8/25/2012 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  Ming's Birthday (Imperial Treasure Super Peking Duck, Paragon): Excellent. It is a testament to just how good this wine was that half the group preferred this to the very good (and several times more expensive) 2000 Trimbach Clos St Hune served alongside. No one was in any doubt that this was a German Riesling when blinded - it had a lovely nose, with classic drops of petroleum, a bit of vanilla, and then sweet wreathes of peach, nectarine and a tropical, pineappley touch floating out of the glass - very fruitily attractive as you would expect from a Rheinhessen. The palate was very much a child of its vintage - very fresh, lively, almost etched with a superb sense of definition, this showed wonderfully lemony freshness racing through a nicely deep, white-fruited palate. It was still very young and maybe a bit one-dimensional, but it was very nice even in its youth, with a classic German balance of quiet power wed to elegant balance. Lovely finish too, showing sweeter stone-fruited notes floating away into the distance on a bed of spice. Such a nice wine. This should be quite stunning when its time comes, but a lot of patience is required - I would say 5 years at least, but this really does deserve far, far longer than that to develop and grow.

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