1998 Müller-Catoir Haardter Mandelring Scheurebe Spätlese

Community Tasting Notes (25) Avg Score: 94.7 points

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  7/10/2021 - mdefreitas wrote: 97 Points

  My second to last bottle and still delivering the goods. Intense tropicality, with lychee, pineapple, apricots, herbs and a chalk-like minerality on the finish. Still retaining a mouth-puckering, punget acidity that focuses all the rich flavors. Head-shakingly awesome wine from HGS.

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  3/29/2020 - coremill wrote: 95 Points

  Absolutely spectacular. Powerful, perfectly ripe tropical fruit that's still super fresh while showing some petrolly, earthy development. Intense but light with lovely, juicy acidity and an earthy edge. Just a hint of sweetness remaining. Just incredibly delicious and gulpable -- the fruit here is like what you always wanted actual fruit to taste like but it never does. But it's not just a glug glug wine, it's interesting and complex enough to merit contemplation. HGS was a genius.

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  1/26/2020 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Riesling Study #1 (Atoboy (Manhattan, NY)): My bottle. Fat nose with bacon, guava, creamy, lychee, spicy. Soft but firm, very sweet and delicious on the palate. Spicy, exotic, deep, persimmon, mandarin, apricot. Long spicy finish. Killer showing - everyone loved it. Thanks to Salil for clueing me in on this wine! Nose - 5.5/6, Palate - 6/6, Finish - 6/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5-2/2 = 19-19.5/20.

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  10/5/2019 - salil wrote: 99 Points

  This shows minimal development (and none of that more advanced greenness/leafiness of older Scheurebe) compared to other bottles I've had, and this might be the absolute best bottle of Scheurebe I've ever had. Kaleidoscopic may be an understatement here - it's packed with such an array of ripe tropical fruits, spice, fresh herbs, and impeccable balance in the way that only HGS could pull off with Beerenauslese-like richness and sweetness matched by tremendous acidity that keeps it feeling so refreshing and light. My last bottle of the '98 Catoir Scheu, and feels like experiencing HGS' genius at the peak of his powers.

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  10/5/2019 - acyso wrote: 98 Points

  Indianapolis V; 10/4/2019-10/5/2019 (Indianapolis, IN): #21-99, 10% abv. I'm glad we didn't open this with the 2001; this bottle would have blown the 2001 out of the water. This doesn't have that green streak that the 2001 has, and instead is just all exotic and tropical. A massive dose of sweet mangos on the nose, with a boatload of fresh herbs as well. The palate is a fair bit sweeter than the 2001, but it is incredibly balanced. This also doesn't have the alcoholic heft of the 2001; it doesn't have that heady feel, and certainly doesn't feel as hot either. At peak now.

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