2017 Wittmann Westhofener Aulerde Riesling Großes Gewächs

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  9/14/2023 - Tobias Strathmann Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Beautiful nose, flavors of fruits, especially apricot and strong minerals.
  
  Opens up beautifully after 30 minutes, great lemon flavor with balance acidity.
  
  Finishes still a little sharp, will have to try again in a couple of years

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  11/26/2021 - ChâteauneufDuPfaff Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Almost overwhelmingly exotic right after opening. Pineapple, mango, ripe peach. On the palate it was a bit more behaved but felt a little disjointed with relatively sharp acidity and a clear nose/palate disconnect. After a night in the fridge the Aulerde was much(!) more harmonious. Still fruity but much more elegant, a bit more tamed acidity and with quite a finish. This will need quite a bit more time in the cellar to fully come together but then will be a great Riesling.

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  7/22/2021 - melvinyeowq wrote:

  Bought a few Wittmann based on hearsay that they are similar to Keller for a fraction of the price, decided to check in on one. Rich, intense nose of petroleum, slightly oxidative and sherry-like. On the palate it had very ripe yellow fruits with a lengthy finish. But somehow GGs always taste a little unbalanced for me for some reason, so still not the biggest fan. This is still very young though and will hold for a long time.

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  5/3/2021 - chbeaumont wrote: 88 Points

  Bright yellow; forceful nose, hessian, sandstone, big; blunt, dusty, not pristine, reductive.

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  4/13/2021 - kingkanu wrote:

  Grosse Gewächs tasting with Sebastian Thomas of Howard Ripley Wines (Zoom tasting): this is a very gentle, sheltered, south-facing slope, 80-100m altitude with clay and limestone soils, 2 hectares of 8.4 hec tares. 12.5% Ripe tropical fruit, crisp saline and very long

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