Rheingau Gourmet Festival "Versteigerungsspitzen & Schatzkammerweine", Kloster Eberbach, early Mar 2013: brownish-yellow color; fruity; slight petrol note.
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Tasting and dinner with old wines from Kloster Eberbach (Kloster Eberbach, Rheingau): Deep golden colour. Nose with dried fruit, citrus, caramel, some spice and smoke, petroleum. The most developed nose of the flight. The palate is "somewhat off-dry" with dried fruit, winter apple, some caramel, medium acidity, a hint of bitterness and an aftertaste of winter apples. Exciting nose, but not too fresh on the palate. 86 p I'm sure this wine - from a top vineyard but marked by the hot vintage - was much more fun when it was 10-20 years old (few 1976 wines below Auslese seem to show well today), and the note of bitterness disturbs me.
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Riesling Dinner - 50s through to the 80s: I found the nose slightly dull, there is some marzipan and earthiness but it didn't really open up over the course of the glass. I though that the palate was brighter, it had some tasty light sweetness along with decent drive, though looking at it very critically the depth isn't really there and thus it didn't really have the interest I look for, though it was perfectly decent to drink.
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Various Wines @ Salil's (Vernon, CT): This is why we age Riesling... so much going on, so many flavors, yet still quite alive for a a 37 year old wine. The nose offered honey, orange zest and dried tropical fruits; one would think this would be sweeter than it actually was from the nose, but the sweetness has mostly melted away, leaving behind a mostly dry, mineral bath of a wine. Sleek and racy. I might guess this would have been a bit slightly better 10 years ago (with a bit more fruit?), but this is holding on nicely on cruise control.
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3/1/2013 - Fatty Cat wrote: 89 Points
Rheingau Gourmet Festival "Versteigerungsspitzen & Schatzkammerweine", Kloster Eberbach, early Mar 2013: brownish-yellow color; fruity; slight petrol note.
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3/1/2013 - Vintomas wrote: 86 Points
Tasting and dinner with old wines from Kloster Eberbach (Kloster Eberbach, Rheingau): Deep golden colour. Nose with dried fruit, citrus, caramel, some spice and smoke, petroleum. The most developed nose of the flight. The palate is "somewhat off-dry" with dried fruit, winter apple, some caramel, medium acidity, a hint of bitterness and an aftertaste of winter apples. Exciting nose, but not too fresh on the palate. 86 p
I'm sure this wine - from a top vineyard but marked by the hot vintage - was much more fun when it was 10-20 years old (few 1976 wines below Auslese seem to show well today), and the note of bitterness disturbs me.
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3/1/2013 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 90 Points
Dinner by Sebastian Lühr * with "Versteigerungsspitzen & Schatzkammerweine" (Rheingau Gourmet & Wein Festival, Kloster Eberbach): Lovely golden colour; good depth, hint of peach, honey, minerals; on the palate off-dry with quite prominent bitters, adequate acidity; good length. Is holding on but getting on.
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2/22/2013 - CamWheeler wrote: 87 Points
Riesling Dinner - 50s through to the 80s: I found the nose slightly dull, there is some marzipan and earthiness but it didn't really open up over the course of the glass. I though that the palate was brighter, it had some tasty light sweetness along with decent drive, though looking at it very critically the depth isn't really there and thus it didn't really have the interest I look for, though it was perfectly decent to drink.
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6/24/2012 - mdefreitas wrote: 93 Points
Various Wines @ Salil's (Vernon, CT): This is why we age Riesling... so much going on, so many flavors, yet still quite alive for a a 37 year old wine. The nose offered honey, orange zest and dried tropical fruits; one would think this would be sweeter than it actually was from the nose, but the sweetness has mostly melted away, leaving behind a mostly dry, mineral bath of a wine. Sleek and racy. I might guess this would have been a bit slightly better 10 years ago (with a bit more fruit?), but this is holding on nicely on cruise control.
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