2008 Van Volxem Wiltinger Gottesfuss Riesling Großes Gewächs Alte Reben

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  7/17/2020 - Kepos Likes this wine: 94 Points

  very balanced, good structure, long, everything there, really good

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  8/22/2017 - sawira wrote: 93 Points

  Bottle #5 of 10. Wow. Rich golden yellow color, hugely laden with minerals and sporting a baked ripe red apple nose and palate. Hugely long, and still a decade or two in hand. Just starting to show hints of secondaries. My aging concerns from last note are laid to rest. This can go the distance. Superb!

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  12/3/2016 - ricemanhk Likes this wine:

  These come from 80-100yo pre-phylloxera vines! For this price, fantastic deal. Golden yellow, nose of stone fruits, beginning to have notes of petrol. Creamy on the palate with a little residual sugar, lovely balance and lengthy mineral finish. There is an intensity and concentration that other german rieslings tend not to have, similar to Zind Humbrecht in Alsace. Would love to try the regular gottesfuss vs the alte reben to see what's the difference with the pre-phylloxera root stock.

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  3/20/2015 - KristianT Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Very juicy full bodied Riesling. Very clear - almost completely translucent. Great maturity and length.

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  1/19/2015 - sawira wrote: 91 Points

  Yellow, with shades of brass. Deep ripe baked apple nose, with almost an earthy marzipan-y, vanilla bean, toasty note, or some sweet stink that lends complexity - like walking through an apple orchard after the first frost, the ground covered with fallen, rotting apples and sweet, dying vegetation. Definitely rich nose. Similar sweetish, chalky, lemon-infused, tropical flower-laden ripe fruit on the palate, with a somewhat thin and hollow mid-palate, and a lingering dryish finish. With time in glass the chalky, slate-y, mineral note becomes more pronounce on the palate. I think this needs more time to fill out in the middle, and could be a gem in a dozen years, although this also seems to lack a little acidity for structure. I also wonder about the seeming lack of residual sugar and dry vinification regarding its ageability. Hmmmm..., interesting. Bottle #4 of 10.
  Fascinating - on just re-reading my previous tasting notes, I again notice the thinness on the mid-palate from my 2012 note, which I did not remember and isn't a detail I usually notice, especially on young Mosels. 91pts now, with a chance of major upside. I'll wait five years for my next bottle, as I think this is baby killing, and not worth it now compared to its potential. We shall see.
  Three nights later, after tracking over those evenings - this is beautiful. I'm struck by Terry Theise's note that this is a winemaker in the Saar that is making wine like it's from the Wachau. He's right. This is DRY vinified, and very, very stylish - capturing minerality and other details often disappeared under the sugar. And the acidity shows up as well - this is laden, but perfectly hidden by the brilliant winemaking and fruit, and in balance. Wow. Upgraded to 94pts. An Alzinger Steinertal of a Riesling.

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