Community Tasting Note

• forceberry wrote: 88 points

  March 4, 2017 - 12% alcohol.
  
  Pale green color. Restrained and crisp nose with subtle aromas of sharp lemony fruit, some stone dust and a hint of smoke. The wine is ridiculously crisp, bracingly acid-driven and tightly-knit on the palate with racy flavors of ripe green apples, lemony citrus fruits and wet stones. There's obviously a lot of ripe fruit, but all of it is underneath the racy acidity, making the wine appear quite closed and austere. The long and dry finish is lively, crisp and racy with sharp flavors of green apples, grapefruit, some lemon zest and a hint of chalky bitterness.
  
  A remarkably racy, rather austere and very tightly-knit Mosel Trocken Riesling that feels rather closed right now. The ripeness from this warm vintage is quite obvious, but it doesn't translate to expressive, fruity character - at least not yet. Impressive, but rather lean and inapproachable stuff, even though it isn't particularly austere in style. I suspect this wine will need more than a decade before it starts to drink nicely and perhaps another one to reach its apogee.

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2 Comments

• Mr_r commented:

  1/11/18, 9:52 PM - When it comes to acidity, this one goes to eleven. There’s 11.4 g/L of it in this one :)

• forceberry commented:

  1/12/18, 12:01 AM - Oh boyo, that explains quite a bit. :D It sure tasted like an acid bomb, so going up to eleven and then a bit more doesn't really come as a surprise!

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