2015 Alzinger Riesling Smaragd Steinertal

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  2/2/2024 - vulgar little monkey wrote: 89 Points

  This was dull and a bit all over the place, especially in the context of the other two whites. I'm generally a producer over vintage guy, but maybe 2015 was hard to overcome. There was enough fruit and it was pleasant enough, but lacking verve.

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  7/16/2023 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 91 Points

  This wasn’t giving very much. Quite backwards and surprisingly muted on the nose with some lemon, peach, and mineral notes coming through. Good acidity with more lemon notes and minerals on the palate but overall quite linear and missing some complexity at this stage. Good finish. Hopefully this is just closed right now. The flavors are present, just not as pronounced as they could be. 91+

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  4/14/2023 - LW31 wrote:

  A reserved and reticent tonight. Shows depth but hard to measure promise. Try again in 4-5 years?

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  6/27/2022 - Goodwine4ever wrote: 92 Points

  Première fois sur un Riesling Autrichien Smaragd.
  Le nez est sur les fruits jaunes, poire asiatique, abricot, litchee.
  Pour un Riesling d'un climat assez frais, la bouche est ample, le fruit est bien présent, minéralité un peu en retrait, pas un textbook riesling mais on retrouve les subtilité. Un riesling avec une bonne structure. Très bien fait dans son genre, va continuer a se bonifier avec les années.

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  8/23/2020 - Alykhan V Likes this wine: 91 Points

  The nose, initially, was mineral-driven with rubber notes (the rubber, which is not unpleasant, goes away from 30 minutes of aeration) and, less prominently, orchard fruits (white peach?) and honey. After aeration, “peaches and cream” aromas and apricot came to the fore.
  The palate is more fruit-driven especially on the back palate, where there’s white peach and other sweet orchard fruits. Also some spice notes.
  Dry. There is the perception of sweetness on the the palate due to the fruit, but it is finished to dryness
  The texture is not too viscous, which is a plus — I normally find rieslings finished to dryness to be a little too oily.
  Excellent length

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