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By David Schildknecht
(Franz Kunstler Hochheimer Reichestal Riesling Kabinett) Login and sign up and see review text.
January/Feburary 2005, IWC Issue #118, (See more on Vinous...)
3/25/2007 - sweetstuff wrote:
TN: Wgt. Franz Künstler 2004 [Hochheimer] Reichesthal Riesling Kabinett, AP 40 060 003 05, 7.5 pabv, $23/750 ml, Arrow Wine Company; Rudi Wiest Cellars International. Strange to see a wine of such breed remaindered, even when the 2005s are coming in fast and furious.
The Reichesthal ("Rich Valley") makes potentially the richest and most powerful of this house’s vineyards, composed of löss with humus, and can even be a little lacking in subtlety in some vintages. Therefore much of the houses’ Spätburgunder is planted here. All this is according to Künstler. While not clumsy, you’ll see that this is an atypically big wine.
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Ahh! A good cork that’s not oversized, and so actually can be removed from the bottle[!], a tall elegant brown non-Charta flask. Optically dense but doesn’t show sheeting. It’s spritzig, already containing small tartrate crystals, and exhibiting an unusual(for a Kabinett) pale orange-green color.
A very fresh nose with lots of high tones showing as peachy fermentation aromas is also accompanied by a bit of orange zest and pine.
This wine has a powerful but ripe zip of tartness, tending to hide some of the rather big sweetness. This is a wine that is nearly dessert-sweet, as seen when the acids come a little more in balance as the spriz leaves. The overall impression is one of orange with a dollop of white peach, a solid an powerful wine for a Kabinett. 90/100, marked down a point for style. Surely a fine value at the reduced price.
I'm now drinking the last of this, probably at 48 hours, and it's come together very nicely. Give it the last point. 91/100.
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3/25/2007 - sweetstuff wrote: 91 Points
TN: Wgt. Franz Künstler 2004 [Hochheimer] Reichesthal Riesling Kabinett, AP 40 060 003 05, 7.5 pabv, $23/750 ml, Arrow Wine Company; Rudi Wiest Cellars International. Strange to see a wine of such breed remaindered, even when the 2005s are coming in fast and furious.
The Reichesthal ("Rich Valley") makes potentially the richest and most powerful of this house’s vineyards, composed of löss with humus, and can even be a little lacking in subtlety in some vintages. Therefore much of the houses’ Spätburgunder is planted here. All this is according to Künstler. While not clumsy, you’ll see that this is an atypically big wine.
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Ahh! A good cork that’s not oversized, and so actually can be removed from the bottle[!], a tall elegant brown non-Charta flask. Optically dense but doesn’t show sheeting. It’s spritzig, already containing small tartrate crystals, and exhibiting an unusual(for a Kabinett) pale orange-green color.
A very fresh nose with lots of high tones showing as peachy fermentation aromas is also accompanied by a bit of orange zest and pine.
This wine has a powerful but ripe zip of tartness, tending to hide some of the rather big sweetness. This is a wine that is nearly dessert-sweet, as seen when the acids come a little more in balance as the spriz leaves. The overall impression is one of orange with a dollop of white peach, a solid an powerful wine for a Kabinett. 90/100, marked down a point for style. Surely a fine value at the reduced price.
I'm now drinking the last of this, probably at 48 hours, and it's come together very nicely. Give it the last point. 91/100.
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3/16/2006 - Thilo wrote: 87 Points
Very pale straw color. Nose of candied lime, peach, and slate. On the palate, sweet peach and citrus are at the fore and continue through this wine. Lacks enough acididty to perfectly balance the sugar, but is a fun drink none the less.
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11/26/2005 - rarewineman wrote: 89 Points
Bottle with my wife for dinner with salmon and sweet potatoes! quite swwet yet has good dry extract and density on the palate. No bouquet-little nose ...needs a few years to develop. Not a lot of acid then we all knew that..
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3/27/2005 - jayh808 wrote:
Water white with pale straw color towards the edge. White peach, honey, lemon, mineral and spice. Creamy in the mouth, flabby, lacking a good acidic back bone.
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