1996 Müller-Catoir Haardter Bürgergarten Riesling Eiswein

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 97.2 points

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  5/1/2022 - Caruso Likes this wine: 99 Points

  Colour of heavily used motor oil. Intense nose and palate of brown sugar (molasse), clementines, honey, wet metal, kumquats, coffee, caramel, lime. Every sip a bit different. On the palate it is unbelievable balanced, intense, and nuanced. Impossible to give less than 20 points for this. 5/14/20/10. Better than the less evolved bottle (as the colour is any indication) three years ago. The only very very sad thing about this: It was my last bottle, I fear. The Eisweins from H.G. Schwarz are unattained in the Franzen era.

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  11/27/2020 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 100 Points

  Day 2. Turns out I had at least one more bottle of this. I hope maybe I have another. Boy I love this wine. The nose is an atom bomb of flavor and sugar and acid. Perfect barbell balance - tons of mandarins, kumquats, spices, horseradish, a touch of figs, maybe a bit of molasses or caramel. The palate and finish are perfection. Barbell again. How much acidity is this carrying? God knows. So potent and yet so electric - similar profile to the nose but more on the citric end. Goes on forever. I think this is the best showing of this wine I've had - and I've had a lot of bottles. Nose - 6/6, Palate - 6/6, Finish - 6/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 2/2 = 20/20
  
  2/26/21 - a lot has happened since I opened this bottle, but I have a little left and it is still amazing.
  
  4/10/21. You get the idea...
  
  10/27/21 ...

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  3/17/2019 - Caruso Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Brown with orange tint. Brown sugar, caramel, honey, plums citrus, maybe mandarin, grapy aftertaste. Absurdly concentrated with high acidity. This is more impressive than fun. But it is fun too. Long aftertaste. 5/13/19/10. This is akin to an Pedro Ximénez from andalusia with more acidity. If you have this you more believe in the myth that pedro ximénez is riesling. I don't know what this is going to be, but I'm quite sure that it can't get any better, maybe different. -2030 in a cool cellar.

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  2/20/2016 - acyso wrote: 98 Points

  They don't make 'em like they used to (New York City, NY): #14-97. From half-bottle. Dark brown. You know that episode of Rick and Morty where Morty asks for a love potion but then Jessica has a cold so everyone gets infected with the mutated love virus and then Rick tries to reverse the effects of it but ends up turning everyone into Cronenbergs? This is Cronenberg riesling. Hilariously massive. Totally overripe, and completely in balance. 200 g/L of sugar, 20 g/L of acid? Probably not far off. If this was made in the old days, you could probably slap a Trockenbeerenauslese on the label as well as the Eiswein. Descriptors? Who cares?

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  2/20/2016 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Day 2 (like it matters - it could have been day 16,407 ...) The nose burns with tangerine, mandarin and quince, along with some brown spices, a touch of dried apricot and molasses, and some zingy chili pepper. Man, this is killer on the palate - just wicked. The sweet fruit and honey are the medium for the acid which ripples through them like gravitational waves caused by binary black hole inspiral. The flavor and power reserves are near-infinite, and for all the massive numbers and grip, this slides across the palate so smoothly. Terrible in its beauty. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 6/6, Finish - 6/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 2/2 = 19/20.

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