2014 Weingut Günther Steinmetz Kestener Paulinshofberg Riesling

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 86 points

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  2/23/2024 - Ingmars wrote:

  A badly corked bottle was opened a week ago and which showed a good depth of ripe, though contaminated, fruit. It was salvaged as an additive to a simple, ready-made, but local, blend of stewed sauerkraut and caramelized onion, mixed with smoked pork belly.
  
  So, a week passed and another bottle was opened, as I was keen to see how this wine in this troubled vintage had been getting on since last noted in October 2022.
  
  An intense medium yellow colour. A nose of old marzipan and old lemon before moving on to a pungent, herbal, quasi-melon/unripe pineapple Rheingau-like character. The palate was also multi-layered with pungent, yet sweet and ripe white fruits and possessed a lovely silken mouthfeel and length. This was a splendid bottle and better than those previously noted. Fine and, on the basis of this bottle, it should drink at this level or thereabouts for at least a couple of years, in view of vintage limitations.

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  10/28/2022 - Ingmars wrote:

  Yellow. Similarly to my note in June 2021, this showed botrytis characters, but this time on both the nose and palate with the very first sip. That doesn't mean it has changed for the worse, though. There is really good length and depth here to enjoy, shutting the eyelids for maximum concentration. After an hour, I got the subtle, almost-fresh pineapple that lead me to again find a comparison with the Rheinhessen. Yet prior to that, with the first pour, Dr. Bürklin-Wolf from the Pfalz seemed closer, such was the ripeness. The bread, botrytis and power-packed finish were, as a whole, collaborative evidence in support. For the most part of the bottle, I would have called rated it very good plus, but the last quarter or third made me scale this perplexing and hardly linear wine back to very good.

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  12/22/2021 - Ingmars wrote:

  I cannot recall in my three decades plus of drinking wine a more baffling series of tastings over a 12 month period from one producer in a particular vintage. The producer is Weingut Günther Steinmetz and the vintage is 2014. In saying this, there are two givens. Firstly, the vintage was a difficult one and secondly, I contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the last week of September 2021 - it having a strong impact on my health. Regarding the latter, my olfactory and gustatory senses were not lost, but they were certainly distorted. For how long? I don't know. Anyway, this wine was a yellowish to yellow colour. The nose was not particularly vivid, though I recorded it as being waxy, with nuts, white to pale yellow fruit and with some custard notes entering the picture. A wide, pineapple-based front develops into a slightly bitter, but properly ripe grapefruit middle and ends with an assertively acidic and boisterous finish, reminding me more of the Rheinhessen. This dry-tasting wine is very good plus. I'm curious how future bottles will go.

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  6/20/2021 - Ingmars wrote:

  Had over three days. Yellow colour. No sponti, peppermint or slate, but a creamy, tropical fruit nose, not spelling Mosel. Perhaps overdone? On the 3rd day, the nose suggested that some noble rot-affected grapes have found their way into this. Mouth is very ripe with decent acids, but again, on the 3rd day, it signals botrytis. There's a lot of material here, with density, and the wine verges on being proper trocken (11.5%), though steering now some distance away from the Mosel. Perhaps the difficulties ascribed to the vintage are beginning to show? Good plus.

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  3/11/2021 - MaJeKu wrote: 86 Points

  In der Nase viel Apfel-Hefe-Gebäck, dazu leicht vegetabil und mit Luft recht viel Limette.
  Am Gaumen sehr rund, über der Säure etwas verwaschene Kontur. Schönes Spiel, mir fehlt etwas Kontur.
  Jetzt trinken, der muss nicht 10 Jahre alt werden.

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