Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 89.9 points

  • This bottle showed fairly dark in color, almost like a sauternes of like age. Less petrol on the palate than the last bottle...evolved tastes, botrytis seemed apparent....still fairly rich and sweet

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  • Lighter in color than I was expecting bc I assumed copious botrytis. Big bold nose. Candied ginger. Poached tree fruit. Hint of herbaceousness. Hint of candied citrus. Broad palate that is slow to materialize. Rich. Sweet (to my taste this is a very sweet spatlese). There’s enough acid to hold it together but barely. I feel like the quality is high but I feel no need to drink a bunch of these and it’s largest over-arching character is that of the vintage Ripe. Low acid Botrytis. Ad someone who really only has wines I bought on release dating to 05 or so, I find this pleasantly fully mature: 06 and 03 are completely at odds w the still frightful youth and density of both 05 and 07.

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  • still plenty rich and sweet...nice flavors, mild petrol

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  • The petrol and rubber smell was prevalent on the pull of the cork, so the entire bottle was poured back & forth from a decanter to the bottle several times, then left in the decanter for an hour. Relatively sweet with relatively low acid for a Spatlese. Most surprising was the copious amount of tartar crystals - more than I've ever seen in a Riesling, almost enough to fill a thimble. After decanting, the nose still showed some rubber & petrol, but also offered lots of topical fruit and some honey. There's a teeny tiny little hint of ginger (from botrytis?) on the finish. Overall, a decent drink but not a bottle I'll look to backfill.

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  • The previous review from 5 years ago pretty much sums up this bottle for me. I would add that in our case, the aroma was initially explosive. Double-decanted, one could stick a nose near the decanter 5 minutes after it was emptied and still smell the wine. That said, auslese-like and could probably stand more time for the sugary nature to subside.

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  • By Joel B. Payne
    January/February 2008, IWC Issue #136, (See more on Vinous...)

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