Holy crap. This is one of the best 2001 Rieslings I've had. This is just spectacular - an array of bright apple, grapefruit, and other citrus fruits, and incredibly vivid flinty and chalky minerality that only gets more intense with air. Smoky and faintly creamy notes augment the fruit here, but the stony and chalky flavours dominate throughout, and it's like drinking a Riesling that came partly from fruit, partly from stone. Remarkable wine. I don't drink much from Bassermann-Jordan, but clearly I should. This is up there with many of the Prüms or MCs I've had in 2001, which is about the highest praise I can give a 2001 Riesling.

Like most young Weils: monstrously rich, intense, packed with ripe fruit, honey, and immense sweetness.

Unlike most young Weils I've had: also shows a tinge of wet cardboard/TCA, not so much that it overwhelms the fruit, but just enough to spoil the experience. Bah.

Monumental wine, and one of the best showings I've ever had from the '86 Gruaud. This has it all; an array of rich, dark fruited flavours, graphite, tobacco, cedar wood, earth, and that leathery, almost meaty Cordier funk, all coming together so seamlessly. A powerhouse of a wine that still comes across incredibly young, with years ahead of it, and tons of tannic structure. And yet it's unbelievably compelling, drinkable with a fragrance that's impossible to move away from, and showing amazing depth and length with new layers unfolding each time I go back to it. Thanks Marco.

A really good, but not great bottle of this. The cork here was soaked through and fell apart, and it seemed a bit more advanced than other bottles I've had in the past year. Still a very pretty wine with lots of bright red cherry fruit, cedar, tobacco, and other mature savoury notes coming together nicely on a medium weight frame, though not showing the depth that I've found in the best bottles of this.

What a great showing. Nicely mature with a core of gentle dark fruited flavours, and more intense black olive, leather, meaty, and briny notes all coming together into a compelling scent. It's very polished and graceful on the palate with the tannin fully integrated and bright acidity giving it lift. Should have bought more of these when HDH had em.