2005 Domaine Albert Seltz Sylvaner Zotzenberg Vieilles Vignes

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  6/23/2018 - liber Likes this wine: 92 Points

  2nd of 2, pnp but drunk over 3 days, perfect cork and level - previous bottle VF, this one starting to show signs of maturity, darker, very rich, if not particularly sweet, apricot, spice, oily, almost granular, very long, persistent and concentrated, not a bit like Sylvaner (cat's piss and gooseberry) and all the better for it, not a food wine and drunk happily as an aperitif, not quite the weight and unctuosity of an SGN so probably best to drink over next 3 years. F (17.5).

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  1/19/2017 - acyso wrote: 70 Points

  January birthday craziness (Chicago, IL): 15% abv! The alcohol was so prominent here that I couldn't figure out much about this wine, except that I really didn't like it...

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  1/19/2017 - nzinkgraf wrote:

  Not corked like the last one, but totally poo-poo'd at the party for being 15%ABV. Apricot and full. im not denying this is quite the top heavy wine, but this should be treated as dry Auslese Sylvaner, maybe it just needs more time. Doubtfully.

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  2/3/2016 - al-Zabba Likes this wine:

  I've waited long enough! When I had it in 2010, my note said to try it again in 2015/2016. Well, it's February 2016 and here it is!
  
  That texture! That body! Clove-studded orange, amber honey, orange marmalade...A panty-dropper of a wine. Must. Find. More.

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  3/14/2015 - nzinkgraf wrote: flawed

  Too bad it's corked, because underneath it smells like Chenin Blanc. Apricot jam on a dry frame. The color of canned peach juice.

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