2015 Weingut Günther Steinmetz Kestener Paulinshofberg Riesling

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  2/18/2024 - Ingmars wrote:

  Towards medium yellow in colour. Floral notes mix with lightly perfumed talcum powder and suggest sweet white fruit more than they do yellow fruit on the nose, but within 10 minutes it goes slightly pungent. Another 10 minutes later the nose gets quite waxy and there is nectarine and a little marzipan showing, too. The pungency is carried on to the mouth, which keeps adding length and sweetness over three hours. Grapefruit finish, like the previous vintage.
  
  I'd never guess Mosel if this was put to me blind. I would have said it was a dry Alsatian riesling and my second guess would have been the Rheingau. But, I've come to expect the unexpected with this weingut. This bottle is layered, complex and easily very good plus, verging on fine.

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  10/11/2023 - Ingmars wrote:

  Since my note in September this year, I have had a couple of bottles which performed consistently with that note. But yesterday I had a bottle which, from the outset, with its intense lightish yellow colour, looked like a different beast. And so it was. None of the ripe passionfruit, but more about minerals dominating white fruit. More Rheingau mineral than Mosel slate on the nose and the sensation I'm drinking from the Rheingau continues on the palate too, with crisp and pungent white fruit and with a tension, concentration and vitality which I can't recently, perhaps ever, recall. Possibly an exceptional bottle amongst the lately merely very good ones, but this is between very good plus and fine.

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  9/11/2023 - Ingmars wrote:

  More than 31 months later, this is now a medium yellow. Tending to passionfruit Mosel nose is ripe enough and fresh, but it is simpler than my previous notes. The length of the palate hasn't changed and it's presenting more like a fairly straightforward, but properly concentrated, trocken style riesling. Very good and probably needs to be drunk before a decade has passed since vintage.

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  2/1/2021 - Ingmars wrote:

  Light yellowish. The menthol-like note is still there on the nose, but there is plenty of slate at the start, with some nectarine and peach coming through later. Initially, the palate seemed oh-so-saline, but opened quickly to show white and yellow fruit. Otherwise, much in-line with my previous note. Very good plus.

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  12/5/2019 - Ingmars wrote:

  This has a yellowish colour, looking more advanced than the producer's Wintricher Geierslay Riesling Sur Lie (''WG'') of the same vintage. For a Mosel, the nose is quite pungent. Partly ripe apricot features. Like the W G, it develops a menthol note, only much later and considerably fainter. The palate is broader, but shorter, than the WG, and is not as complex. A difficult phase? Still, very good plus.

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