2018 Josmeyer Muscat

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 88.5 points

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  4/3/2020 - forceberry wrote: 89 Points

  Made from biodynamically farmed grapes. 12,5% alcohol.
  
  Quite youthful pale yellow color with a subtly green hue. Open, fragrant and varietally correct nose with aromas of perfumed floral tones, some ripe pear, a little bit of fruit marmalade candies, light notes of grapey fruit and a hint of green banana. The wine is medium-bodied and balanced on the palate with moderately high in acidity, yet still the roundness typical of Muscat is present as well. The taste is dry and clean with precise flavors of fresh apples, grapey fruit, some musky floral tones, a little bit of angular stony minerality, a hint of exotic spice and a touch of pear. The moderately high acidity lends good sense of structure to the wine. In the aftertaste the fruitier flavors fade away quite fast, leaving behind dry flavors of stony minerality, spicy terpenes, some apple peel bitterness and a hint of perfumed floral character.
  
  A very nice, fresh and balanced effort for a Muscat; quite rarely the dry examples of this cultivar perform this well. However, for a dry Alsatian white this is nothing phenomenal: a good Muscat is often very lovely as a wine an sich, but all too rarely anything transcendent. However, at only 13€ I don't expect this wine to be anything more than a nice everyday white. Great value for the price, paired really nicely with asparagus risotto. Hard to say if the wine will benefit from aging, but at least it was drinking now really well.

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