Skurnik/Theise Spring Tasting

City Winry
Tasted Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by hutch with 1,529 views

Introduction

My first large tasting of Theise's wines. I've separated some of the star wineries from my perspective.

Flight 1 - Austrian Wines (24 Notes)

Even though these wines are all together, there were some very nice wines and great values out there. Prieler's Blaufrankisch was excellent, and Hofer,Berger, Ecker and Schwarzbock all offered great value.

Flight 2 - Glatzer (5 Notes)

Easily the best values on the Austrian side. These were very nice wines, at the same quality of many producer's who were charging a couple bucks more.

Flight 3 - Nigl (3 Notes)

Another table that really excelled. I'm really looking forward to both the German and Austrian '09's, and the Freiheit was one of the major reasons why. These wines are priced well, too.

  • 2009 Nigl Grüner Veltliner Kremser Freiheit 89 Points

    Austria, Niederösterreich, Kremstal

    5/28/10: Spice. Herbs, a hint of banana, and the Heff thing going on. That's all in the aromatics. On the palate, it is quite nice, but not at the level I remember from the large tasting, and I'm not sure I'd really get that excited about it at the $20+ price tag it commands. 88

    1/19/10: Amazing nose. Really stunning. Has a Heffewiezen thing going on with bananas and the herbal aromas. Great stuff. 90-91

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  • 2008 Nigl Grüner Veltliner Privat 88 Points

    Austria, Niederösterreich, Kremstal

    Very soft. Nice, but I'm not in love with this.

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  • 2008 Nigl Riesling Privat 90 Points

    Austria, Niederösterreich, Kremstal

    Bright and clean. Appley. High acid. Very high intensity. This is very nice stuff. 90+

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Flight 4 - Salomon (4 Notes)

More great wines, although not the value play of others. The name is too known. The '96 Library Reserve Riesling was probably my favorite wine of the day.

Flight 5 - Brundlmayer (5 Notes)

One of the big names, and they didn't disappoint. Probably the best table today. The Alte Reben is probably the best GV I've ever had.

Flight 6 - Misc. German Wines (36 Notes)

Some really nice wines thrown in here. I skipped most of the Christoffel wines due to palate fatigue. Happily the Kabinetts seemed to be the stars of the '08 vintage, and I don't have a problem with that.

Flight 7 - Selbach-Oster (9 Notes)

A dizzying variety of wines, ranging from great values to just great wines.

Flight 8 - Hexamer (4 Notes)

These were some great wines, and fairly priced to boot.

Flight 9 - Donnhoff (3 Notes)

Not a surprise about the quality here. I do wish there were a few more wines present, but I suppose there's not a great need to show that many.

Flight 10 - Leitz (7 Notes)

This was pretty easily the best value German table out there. Just amazing entry level stuff. I wonder how much of this had to do with the fact that he was pouring the '09's.

Flight 11 - Messmer (2 Notes)

A special mention because I really dug these two liter bottles.

  • 2008 Meßmer Spätburgunder trocken 86 Points

    Germany, Pfalz

    3/20: High acid, cherries. A little earth. I still like this, and think it offers a good value, but maybe not at the level I found at the tasting a couple months ago. 86

    1/19/10: Earthy funky wine. Dry. Quite nice. 87+

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  • 2008 Meßmer Riesling 87 Points

    Germany, Pfalz

    Birght, easy going wine. Nice minerality.

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Flight 12 - Burgundy, and 1 Italian (10 Notes)

There were many tables of Pinot Noir out there, but I just tried the Burgs.

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