1996 Müller-Catoir Haardter Bürgergarten Rieslaner Auslese

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 92.7 points

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  7/15/2022 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Haven’t had this in a while so I pulled one from my stash. This pours dark orange / brown. Nose is how I remember with molasses and horseradish. Very piquant and spicy and dark. Maybe some mandarin peel or kumquat as well. Palate is sweeter with some mandarin or tangerine or kumquat and then the horseradish and botrytis kick in. The acid on this is stupid and combined with the horseradish it’s a mouthful. Great grip and energy and with the darker flavors it’s a excellent combo and contrast. Spicy and juicy and horseradish and molasses into the long spicy finish. Maybe almost a hint of sauerkraut. Lol. Gotta love 96 acid. Not a rock star like the best HGS wines but more like an over-performing long term set musician. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 5.5/6, Fonish - 5/6; Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 17/20.

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  8/18/2020 - DaleW wrote:

  Ripe peach, candied grapefruit, brown sugar. Sweet but with good underlying acidic balance. B+

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  8/24/2018 - SoundinBetween wrote:

  Very dark golden orange, on its way to a light brown today. Palate is juicy with delicious acidity, flavors of lush nectarine/yellow peach, honey, guava, mango, and citrus all wrapped up solid. Very good and not going anywhere (bad) soon. Tasted consistently over 2 days.

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  1/6/2018 - Caruso Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Orange with amber tint and cloudiness. Quince, honey, citrus and brown sugar. Intense on the palate with obvious und not fully integrated sweetness, that is why it works as a dessert wine with not to sweet desserts except chocolate desserts. This bottle shows no funky notes, but much of acidity that carries the flavor in a long aftertaste. This bottle was cellared under perfect conditions since release. The cork was soaked to 50%. It is fully mature and maybe also already in slow decline. It will hold through some more years, maybe a decade (in a perfect cellar), but why take the risk? Drink it up! 4/12/18/8

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  2/15/2015 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Medium orange-brown. Murky. The nose is quince, marmalade, burnt sugar, molasses, nuts, apricots, and something funky. Very high acid. The nose reminds me some of a dessert sherry. The palate is very acidic - tart quince and marmalade, some orange peel and brown sugar and nuts. The end palate has a saline concentration from the fruit and acid. The finish is similar with molasses, marmalade and acid, but the funk comes out now and again. Nose - 4.5-5/6, Palate - 5/6, Finish - 4.5-5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 15-16/20.

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