2016 Alfred Merkelbach Ürziger Würzgarten Riesling Spätlese halbtrocken

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  1/24/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 93 Points

  nine days, nine years in reverse; 1/19/2024-1/27/2024 (lake erie basin): 10% abv. AP 7. 62°F. NOSE: initially, sharp and hissing, with lemon oil and broken shale. After adjustment and air comes tender, humid, apple blossom petal confetti ankle-deep. Behind that, there is a surge of deep ocean saline, black cherry jam, cress/goosefoot/angelica, and milled oats. MOUTH: an electrified bony spine shrouded in sweet herbs, meyer lemon, green apple, mulling spice, and dashi. It pulses with determination, strewing organized action around the approximately linear path of the drinking event. Lithic, appetizing bitterness joins lemon-peel acid to impose a decisive, dry balance. SUMMARY: radiant clarity of flavor; muscular and restless. The last few drinks are crystaline laminar fluid folded over jagged stone—blimey. Peak bottle age won't come until after 2026.

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  5/8/2022 - Putnam Weekley wrote: 93 Points

  10% abv. AP 7. Floral, delicate cloak. Determined spine. Finishes in shards of bone and salt that stain. Best at 57°F within 24 hours of opening. Very pale, low-density color with green highlights. Cream, green flowers, red apples, chipped chalk. A mouthful is a dry drink of green flavor. The texture is generous. Lots of surface tension and transparent mineral glazes. Deep into the first pour I notice a trace of dissolved gas. Eventually it brings out lemon and bing cherry notes. The acidity is salt-thick, penetrating, and fresh with zucchini, lime leaf and apple blossom perfumes. Held together with rewarding, juicy, glycerin texture—well within the *feinherb* convention.

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  5/7/2022 - Dale M wrote: 92 Points

  2 and a half years later, this has really filled in, both in terms of volume, shape and overall chugging factor. This almost leans ‘dry’ now, with the sweetness coming in very late on a precise finish. Lemon lime soda, but I mean that in the best possible way, some floral aspects too, white flowers perhaps. I should have bought a case of this in 2020. Lovely.

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  2/20/2022 - capriowine wrote: 87 Points

  A little dry vs how I prefer my Rieslings, but had notes of lemon and herbs. Paired ok with Mexican, but would have been better with seafood.

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  1/16/2021 - aagrawal wrote: 90 Points

  AP#7. 10% alcohol. Coravin. Pale yellow-green; moderately aromatic, hints of lime, seashell, ocean breeze; palate is medium bodied but also in some ways mouthcoating, medium-plus acidic spritz, just barely off dry without seeming at all sweet, lime to peach fruit, pretty good persistence through the midpalate if not the most complex; finish is solidly medium length. A very interesting wine which has both textural presence and freshness. 90

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