Community Tasting Note

• Vintomas wrote: 89 points

  March 2, 2013 - 2013 spring auction in Kloster Eberbach/Eberbach Abbey (Kloster Eberbach, Rheingau): Nose with dried red berries including raspberries and cherries, mineral, flowery and perfumed, spice, some fortified wine nose, and elegance. Sweet on the palate (typical Beerenauslese level), noticeably spicy, dried red berries, medium tannins, some bitterness. Slightly fiery, some fortified wine feeling. Slightly odd, but shows good vigour. 89 p
  As far as I understand it was produced from grapes that got sun-dried (“raisined”) in the vineyard, as opposed to being affected by noble rot as is usually the case with white Beerenauslese. This makes it an unusual style of wine for Rheingau.
  Tasted from half bottle.

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2 Comments

• Tim Heaton commented:

  1/28/14, 2:39 PM - Boy, there's a wine you don't see every day. Great note

• Vintomas commented:

  1/28/14, 2:48 PM - I actually had tasted it some years before at an earlier auction tasting, when it was youngish, although I didn't remember it as "fortified wine-like". They haven't made it very often, and their sweet Spätburgunder wines are usually rosé (Weißherbst). However, they were far from the only German producer to make this type of wine in 2003.

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