2012 Domaine Ostertag Riesling Fronholz

Community Tasting Notes (5) Median Score: 86 points

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  10/29/2022 - kostaslonis wrote:

  Brought to drink at Oinoscent during night service
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  The wine needs some time to open up, a wide array of overripe fruits, refreshingly spicy, yeast notes, beautiful thin nutty frame, vanilla, croissant/burnt sugar notes, almond, honey layers
  In the palate, the wine shows medium to full body, highly extracted, high acidity, turmeric spicy, honey/syrup notes again but less than the nose, a touch warm (13%), lime scented medium finish.
  I would call this at peak

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  11/20/2018 - nalmoayed Likes this wine: 86 Points

  Good body. Not very petroleum forward. Ok not great

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  7/28/2015 - JimmyBubbles Likes this wine: 85 Points

  De nuevo sacado a ciegas, está vez me gustó algo más.
  
  Empieza a petrolear y a sacar notas a amieladas. Intensa nariz de fruta blanca y piedras, muchas piedras.
  
  La boca saca algo más de calidez, redonda y agradable. Especiado y citrico.
  
  Se me hizo algo menos cansino está vez.

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  7/14/2015 - JimmyBubbles wrote: 80 Points

  Sacado a ciegas.
  
  Mineral, petroleando, hierbas secas, un fondo de pedernal.
  
  Algo pesado en boca pero muy agradable, citrico, buen volumen.
  
  Con algo más de finura me hubiera gustado mucho más.

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  9/22/2014 - forceberry wrote: 94 Points

  Quite intense golden yellow color. Cool and very intensely aromatic nose with characterful aromas of aromatic herbs, peach marmalade candies, ripe oranges, some honey and a hint of citrus zest. Really much going on here. The wine is dry yet rich, full-bodied and very concentrated with powerful flavors of exotic spice, apricots, dried peaches, beeswax, some fragrant perfumed character and a hint of wildhoney. Overall this feels like a very big, impressive and almost massive wine, yet nothing too flabby nor overdone, thanks to the moderately high acidity giving the wine good structure. The finish is big, powerful and concentrated, yet almost crisp with its high acidity. There are rich, persistent flavors of aromatic herbs, honey, sweet red apple, some dried yellow stone fruits and a hint of lemon marmalade.
  
  Wow. I mean, just wow. This is a real powerhouse of a Riesling. However, this doesn't taste like a overripe Riesling that has been left hanging in the vine, but instead a wine made from grapes that are just incredibly concentrated with flavor compounds and extract beyond comprehension - the wine is still as fresh and structured as any other Alsatian Riesling. The power, concentration and intensity is just a few notches higher than with any other wine. This is incredibly impressive right now, but I'd love to see how the wine will develop with some bottle age.

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