2007 Reichsrat Von Buhl Forster Ungeheuer Riesling Beerenauslese

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  3/25/2024 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 93 Points

  Late night at home. 375ml bottle. Drabk in Gabriel Standart.
  Appearance is clear, medium intensity, amber gold colour. Thin but thick legs.
  Nose pronounced intensity, with aromas of marmalade, botrytis spice, sultana raisins, honey nectared flowers - complex mix of honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and roses. Stony minerality emerges with more air. Developed.
  On the palate, lusciously sweet, just about barely high acidity to balance it, low alcohol (7.5%), full body. Pronounced flavour intensity, with flavours of thick unctous honey, marmalade orange, sweet apricots, sultana raisins, rosewater, spice, tingling minerality to the end.
  Long cloying sweet finish with a lick of spice.
  Very good quality. Massive and heavy going. Best drank in small doses. Won't die anytime soon, and also probably won't budge much development wise any more. No petroleum at all. Acid is good, but chasing the sweetness.

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  1/1/2010 - MauriceE wrote: 91 Points

  Already very fine to drink. No "sticky" elements here, good acidity. Lovely wine with a very long life ahead.

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  9/12/2009 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  CdP and Riesling Tasting (Beautiful Wines, The Plaza): This was a massively sweet, super-rich wine. Not sure how I should rate this - obviously good, but just too overwhelmingly sweet for my palate. Lovely golden colour on the wine. The nose was sweet, as would be expected, but really, really nice. I wrote "wow' in my handwritten notes, as the aromas of honey and marmalade along with a minerally undertoned and perfumy top-notes of white flowers, spice and aromatic incense wafted out of the glass. The palate was just a bit too cloying though. Huge, unctuous weight on this, almost like drinking honey or syrup. Very primary at the moment too, with raisiny, sultana flavours dominating along with a trickle of metallic mineral especially towards the longish finish. There was some acid, but it was lick trying to hack away at that massive mountain of botrytised honeyed sweetness with an ice-pick. No doubt all the right material is there, but this needs a long, long time to tone down.

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  9/11/2008 - MauriceE wrote: 90 Points

  Tasted at a Von Buhl tasting in Velp (The Netherlands): Although it did not have the spectacular finish the Auslese had, this wine is also outstanding. Of course it is far more sweeter than the Auslese, but as a true great riesling, it was not sticky at all. It is very elegant, with nice fruit in the nose including the characteristic rosewater and dianthus. This wine is lovely on the palate and has a near perfect balance. However, it does not have the intensity the great Mosel wines have, hence "only" 90 points. I guess this wine is virtually immortal.

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