2021 Egon Müller Scharzhofberger Riesling Spätlese

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 95 points

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  9/1/2023 - Elpaninaro Likes this wine:

  Opened and decanted 6 hours prior to serving
  
  palest champagne color, at opening a serene nose of peach and rose petals, on the palate digitally defined with a deft light feel but a persistence of fruit and acids that slowly and gradually overwhelms the palate - a contrast I have seen before with great young Riesling but not ever to this degree, 6 hours later - on the nose cascades of rose petals, peach, pear and sweet slate, on the palate a wonderment, huge and broad in scale but with digital definition at every point and light as a feather, incredible length with a degree of tension almost at the level of this estate's Kabinett, succulent peach, hints of blood orange, rose petals for days, a finish measured in minutes- not seconds, a good friend in attendance said it best, "a ballerina that could kick your ass", with time exotic tangerine notes and a riverbed of perfectly smooth and pristinely detailed stones, with such a beautiful and storied wine in which every vintage offers great wonder and a clear purpose it feels inappropriate to use words like "best"- but I will say this vintage stands out in particular for the sheer scale of its delights presented in such an effortless, elegant and refined manner, as good as it gets.
  
  (*****), 2031++

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  6/22/2022 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 95 Points

  A private tasting of the Egon Müller 2021 collection (Scharzhof, Wiltingen, Germany): Amazing tension and energy, steely acidity, textbook Saar, only a whiff of reduction, cassis, peach, comes across as almost, dry, so tightly wound, never ending finish. Star quality, perhaps my favourite wine of the entire range.

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