8/14/2024 - libero wrote:

A great SURPRISE...dark red, dense, vibrant, berries aromas, short finishing
Drunk it in 5 consecutive days, getting belter by day. After the third day, became even more smooth with subdue tanning. Great "Bordeaux" for the price.

8/3/2024 - MaJeKu wrote:

In der Nase reifes gelbes Steinobst, Curry, Fenchel und Fenchelkraut. Dazu etwas nussig und erinnernd an eine Holzschatulle. Schließlich deutlich laktisch.

Am Gaumen ebenfalls recht laktisch, allerdings dazu mit guter, saftiger und animierender Säure und auch feingriffiger Phenolik. Recht würzig, hier durchaus etwas pfeffrig. Das ergänzt sich sehr stimmig mit der weiter oben beschriebenen Aromatik, die sich hier fortsetzt.

Guter Abgang, gute Länge.

Jetzt austrinken.

7/2/2024 - macaujames Likes this wine:

92/93. The best MNS ever! Has lovely opulence. Is decently oaked too,13%. The fragrant aromas light up the room! Drink in next 2-5 years. Needs 2 hours aeration. This is superb and wonderful value at 16 Euros. I could drink this all day! This is caseworthy!

3/30/2024 - Ruminator Likes this wine:

Medium yellow color.

Match-stick reduction. Lemon zest and pith. Strong honeysuckle and subtle oak and a hint of fennel. Nectarine, quince, and tropical fruit. Grapefruit acidity. Texture is relatively light. Slight hotness in the back palate. Excellent acidity. Floral lift and long finish.

Ripe and bi bodied Meursault. Though, it's not weighty. Amazing intensity and tension.

4/19/2024 - lukeintowine wrote:

The wine looks garnet colored. The legs are slow. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like strawberry, raspberry and cherry. It tastes like strawberry, raspberry and cherry. The body is medium. The wine has coarse texture. The wine finishes short. The wine has medium acidity.

4/4/2024 - gallu wrote:

92 Estupendo y jovencísimo. Amarillo pálido verdoso. Nariz predominantemente mineral, con algo de hidrocarburo. En boca empieza su recorrido, notas de caramelo de miel y limón, muy cítrico. Acidez importante y mucha estructura. Preciso, goloso. Hay que darle aún muchos años. Promesa de vino excepcional.

2/18/2024 - lukeintowine wrote:

Grande Champagne: Fine texture in the mouth with a full body.
Toast and brioche notes, noticeable wood, yet mineral and focused, no noticeable residual sweetness.
There is a VA note that I find pretty off-putting at the moment, but the other drinkers did not seem to care as much as I did.
Maybe this can go away with aging. Hence, may range for the rating.

Very good - outstanding (and can perhaps still improve). 92-95

2/14/2024 - lukeintowine wrote:

Brought to a Thai Restaurant by a friend.

Outstanding wine! Ripe, concentrated yellow fruit, yet very balanced. Quite full-bodied for a Riesling.
After having the wine with food, I could sense some wood on the palate, anyway if there is wood it is perfectly integrated.

12/22/2023 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine:

I found this to be rather a wizard wheeze. Sadly, for the most part Champagne leaves my flinty Protestant heart rather cold; perhaps I am predestined to be miserable?

It was surprising to find this on the list of a sensationally awful bottle shop but I had read some good things and so after a quick bit of embezzling of funds (God wants us to be rich and happy, ergo he don't mind a spot of well directed criminality - the prosperity gospel really gets to the heart of the Sermon on the Mount and it really is the driving theme in the Gospel of Luke) this was had.

Nice notes of brioche, lovely white peach and nectarine fruit, not a grapefruit in sight and some bready autolysis stuff. Hint of almond. Lovely clarity and bead. I have to say that this was worth every penny I stole. It also provided a really nice way to welcome in the Festy Season and celebrate finishing a long, hard year and clearing the decks so that I have a fighting chance of a few weeks of unmitigated bliss before the damnation sets in again.

11/16/2023 - Kris G wrote:

I can copy/paste my note from yesterday:
Bottle from Superiore.de, so no surprise that it smelled and tasted as a wine of more than 100 years old. I'm outraged, that's already about € 5000 worth of wine from Superiore down the drain. And still some big Barolo's in my cellar (at 12 °C) from them....

1/29/2023 - Rieslingfan wrote:

Enough spice to launch a thousand lattes. Plenty of structure. What it lacks is fruit. Already feels a little dried out just more than three years post-vintage.

8/3/2023 - huse Likes this wine:

Very dense and complex Sauvignon Blanc, sourced from the coralline limestone soils of the Ciringa vineyard, the Slovenian part of Tement’s famous Zieregg single-vineyard on the other side of the Austrian-Slovenian border. The ‘Cirigna Reserve’ is vinified only in excellent vintages. The wine was fermented spontaneously with natural yeasts and spent 42 months on its fine lees in big neutral oak casks. Bright straw-yellow in color and an intense mineral driven nose evoking scents of grapefruit, Mirabelle, orange zest, dried herbs and a touch of flint. The powerful but well-balanced palate reveals concentrated yellow tropical fruit, notes of white currants and Williams pear, a serious depth and a great acid structure. Sustained aftertaste with attractive herbal nuances and a pleasant touch of bitterness. This is drinking very well now, and will easily hold another 3-5 years.

Zeer dichte en complexe Sauvignon Blanc, geteeld op de koraalkalksteenbodems van de Cirigna-wijngaard, het Sloveense deel van de beroemde Zieregg-cru (Tement) aan de andere kant van de Oostenrijks-Sloveense grens. De 'Cirigna Reserve' wordt alleen gemaakt in uitstekende jaargangen. De wijn werd spontaan vergist met natuurlijke gisten en verbleef nadien 42 maanden ‘sur lie’ in grote neutrale eiken vaten. Helder strogeel van kleur en een intens minerale neus met aroma’s van pompelmoes, mirabelle, zeste van sinaasappel, gedroogde kruiden en ook vleugje vuursteen. Het krachtige maar fraai uitgebalanceerde smaakpatroon biedt geconcentreerd geel tropisch fruit, tonen van witte bessen en williamspeer, een serieuze diepgang en een voortreffelijke aciditeitsstructuur. Persistente afdronk met aantrekkelijke kruidige nuances en een aangename bittertoets. De wijn is nu perfect op dronk, en blijft zeker nog 3-5 jaar op dit niveau.

7/19/2023 - macaujames wrote:

93/94. Brogsitter is on a roll. One of the best Ahr wines ever. 13.5%.
Fantastic value at under 23 Euros. I have a case and a half of their Frühburgunder B 20 and Spätburgunder B 20 and was astonished by their massive quality level too. I will visit them tomorrow and find out what they
are doing!

7/12/2023 - oldwines Likes this wine:

Two pretty large coravin pours into 2 glasses. Tasted at first pour and every half hour through 3 hours. 15% ABV (high for Ciacci in my experience). At first the wine looked rather old, surprisingly, with a distinctly bricked meniscus for a 7 year old wine. The color brightened at about hour 2 and by the 3rd had almost completely lost the brick color and was less dark and more bright and translucent. The nose was fairly effusive initially with some scorched earth, florals and dark berry jam. As time progressed the floral elements lessened and the fruit notes seemed brighter and less jammy. Palate was very disjointed initially with a distinctly bitter finish, similar to what I experienced with the 2016 Ciacci Favius Syrah, not pleasant. There was some menthol and red cherry fruit, spice and bright acidity. Tannin was medium(-). As the wine got air it did settle down and lost the bitter edge, though at no point did it seem consistent with most of my previous Ciacci Brunello’s. It was distinctly better with food however, throughout the evening, which is somewhat consistent with my experience. At this point in its development it seemed best in the 2-3 hour window. I would agree with others that this is probably not going to be a long aging wine, in contrast to my original expectation. This was quite unusual for me from this traditional producer that I have tended to enjoy more than this.

7/8/2023 - lukeintowine wrote:

Pop and pour.

Fresh acidity, red fruits, spices, earthiness. A bit bitter, let's see if that goes away. Medium body, tannins are completely resolved – so much so, that I am missing a bit of a backbone here..
Seems developed.

Very good wine.

6/3/2023 - theRealPepe Does not like this wine:

Tasted over several hours. This was a major disappointment, with oak dominating over any other details. A vigorous shaking revealed a bit of fruit, but the wood still overpowered or any other facet. Given that I actually poured a glass away I can only rate Below Average.

5/15/2023 - lukeintowine wrote:

Hmm, not sure if this was a correct bottle. Too much development.
Very ripe apple, nutty notes, a bit oxidized.

2/20/2023 - SMHalps Likes this wine:

I was expecting a dryer wine that this turned out to be. That was based on the alcohol content. But reading Panzer's notes, I should have realized it would have some sweetness. Really enjoyable. I shared this with my wine group at an Indian restaurant and the sweetness played very well against the spices in the food.

11/28/2022 - lukeintowine wrote:

This wine was driven by Cabernet, showing ripe fruit but with those green/leafy notes and some tannins.

2/25/2022 - lukeintowine wrote:

This is presenting itself very nicely at the moment. It has abundant fruit and the wood is not standing out.

I opened the bottle a few hours before dinner and put it back in the fridge. I decided not to decant, and I think it was a good decision because over the course of the evening the tannins became more and more prominent and the fruit retreated.

It was astounding to me that it was so enjoyable at this young age, even though it was a rather fruity wine and missing some complexity. With age, it will become a more serious wine I hope.

6/26/2022 - theRealPepe Likes this wine:

This field blend is as exotic as previous comments suggest. After first opening there is a small bit of off-putting oxidation, but that minimizes after opening up (and mostly unnoticable on day 2.) There is a definite richness on the palate, but in contrast to a previous note the sneakiness lay in the imperceptible acidity that helps balance the unusual flavor palette. See other notes for their various descriptors. Held up well accompanying tofu and shrimp fried rice on night 1 and was nice all by itself on night 2. Very Good to Excellent, upgraded to Excellent for its exoticism.

4/25/2022 - chablis28 wrote:

One of the more complex German Rieslings I've ever had! And while I don't own many Riesling, in general, they seem to have an extra level of complexity than most whites. My only beef with Riesling is that most are too sweet for me. Even Kabinetts in most vintages. I do enjoy GGs but they run to the bone dry spectrum. This was in my wheelhouse tonight. Glad I bought 3 but wish it had been 6! Really loved this w/ Cuban sandwiches tonight! A little petrol on the nose is the only knock for my palate.

3/12/2021 - The Drunken Cyclist Likes this wine:

Retail $22. Under cork. I had the pleasure of sharing this wine over dinner with Karoline Walch, Elena’s daughter and current CEO of the brand. The wine is made in the tiny town of Tramin, the purported home Traminer, the parent grape that eventually mutated into a spicier version of itself, also known as Gewürztraminer (“gewürtz” means “spicy in German). Yes, the town is in Italy, which is confusing unless you have a Ph.D. in European History (which I don’t). A brilliant straw in the glass with the classic Gewürtz spices, fresh rose petals, and exotic fruit (kiwi?). The palate is virtually dry (if there is any residual sugar, it is more than counterbalanced by the acidity), with lovely fruit, tons of spice, and a lengthy finish. It is rare that I find a Gewürztraminer outside of Alsace that I enjoy, but I should have known that Elena Walch made one.

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8/25/2021 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine:

Under cork, this wine evolved beautifully over a few hours and then held up without issues over 2 days.

The colour is as expected with Clemens Busch - it looks a bit more golden and deeper than many other German kabinet Rieslings. The nose and palate evolved from almost Chablis like restraint when first opened to the usual Clemens-Bush GG riot of tropical fruits (even a hint of pineapple), stone fruits and, to me, a note of ginger/ginger flower. The texture is magical - lush but finishing crisp and clean and very, very long.

I confess that I struggle for objectivity with these wines - they really move me and have an incredible emotional impact that few wines do. For example the Keller wines, which are simply magnificent and expressions of Riesling purity don't move me like the Clemens Busch GG's do. I regard these wines as cheap, given what you get.

My score reflects the Cellar tracker scale - outstanding wine.

5/31/2021 - -Tim- Likes this wine:

Last month I had the 2017 Orbel GG and wrote:

"Dark yellow hue, oily rims. Despite this young age for a GG, already quite mature and early drinking window I assume. Brilliantly balanced (6.6 g/L acidity vs 4.3 g/L RS), massive mineralty, papaya and grapefruit, light petrol notes, burnt caramel and a long finish. Refreshing, complex and elegant GG, well done!"

2018 plays in the same league (6.3 g/L acidity vs 4.1 g/L RS), maybe a bit more difficult to drink right now, which is no surprise given its young age. 91+p

Falstaff: 92p
WeinPlus: 92p

5/12/2021 - Mon.Maultiere wrote:

Drunk for dinner with duck pate toasts. Translucent deep purple-tinged garnet, bright and clear. Some dark cherry fruits, cranberries, smoke and hints of more mineral, earthy elements. Well judged acidity. Tannins present still. However, the overwhelming flavour is of oak - too much for my palate. There is not enough concentration or depth of fruit to balance the wood leaving one feeling one has drunk a watery cordial from a treen cup. At 5 years of age, I don't see this reaching harmonious balance with further keeping. My impression is that this entry level PN has had the same treatment as his top end wines and it hasn't been able to cope. Drinkable but limited real pleasure.

4/15/2021 - -Tim- Likes this wine:

Bought 5 bottles earlier this year. Leckerberg translates to "tasty mountain", which is a great description of these terroir-driven GGs.

Fresh palate (10 months in steel tanks to preserve it) with lemon, pineapple, and mirabelle. Interestingly, it has some oily and petrol notes as well. Combined with the chalky minerality and 50 year old vines you get a very sophisticated Riesling GG.

Already very approachable at this young age!

Suckling: 96p

3/26/2021 - lukeintowine wrote:

This left me a bit puzzled. This was so tannic on the first day I had to take a sip of water after each sip of wine. No kidding. They were so mouth drying! Also, the amount of sediment in the bottle was strange.

Nonetheless, the wine fascinated me with its power.
Day 1: Cabernet Sauvignon is dominating with meaty and (green) bell pepper, then blackberries and cherry. Big tannins that give you something to chew on. The acidity gives a nice tension. Overall unsettled and missing balance.
Day 4: Tannins are tamed and give better mouthfeel. More room for the fruit. Better balance.

I will try to get 2 more bottles and store them away for 10+ years.

5/18/2020 - Richard P Howden wrote:

Very interesting to drink after the 3 star white cap from this vintage/vineyard. The 3 star is a large step up. This by contrast is a nice bright lemony dry Riesling, with med- texture and a medium finish. A bit of overt oak lessens the subtlety of the wine. Enjoyable but clearly a second wine.

3/14/2021 - lukeintowine wrote:

Very dark purple in the glass. On the nose blueberries, a bit of plum, spices, strawberry yogurt/ice cream. In the mouth nice fruit, dry, some round tannins and a good length.
On the first day there was quite some vanilla from the oak(?), on day four it was still there but really well integrated. So I think this would benefit from 2-3 more years in the bottle. Also, on the first day it was more edgy than on day three and four. Excellent (92).

3/10/2021 - theRealPepe wrote:

Pale with just the slightest green glint. Nose is heavenly.
Fleeting aromas of white fruits and flowers, but mainly there is vanilla poached pear. On the palate, the body is for me Rheinhessisch - a heavier body compared to Mosel or Nahe, and a more lipsmacking acid/citrus note. There is maybe some granny smith apple thrown in as well. Would have liked some spice, salinity and yellow fruit. Overall, the palate is enjoyable but not up to the outstanding nose. Very Good.

12/1/2020 - Gabriel Geller Likes this wine:

CChâteau Fourcas Dupré, Listrac-Médoc, 2018: Deep garnet toward purple, with on the nose blackberries, wild blueberries, leather, fresh herbs, green foliage, and a touch of loamy dirt. Medium-bodied, with "just right" concentration. The palate shows juicy black and red fruit, earthy minerals, subtle smokiness, dried mushrooms, sage, medium acidity, and grainy tannins that gently coat and dry the mouth with tobacco and dark chocolate notes on the long and silky finish. Another winner from this top QPR estate, almost as good as the 2015. 13% Abv. Drink 2025-2033, perhaps a bit longer. 92

11/26/2020 - Kellerkind Does not like this wine:

Probably different to any Pinot, I ever had. First it's quiet austere. There's some of the usual Pinot aroma, but not much. Bit of an alcohol smell, though. On the palate, it's not really fruity, either. There's mostly earthiness and a lot of herbal or vegetable-like taste. Very light and refreshing, but with a lot of alcohol behind it, heating up mouth and throat. Very unusual balance. I can't say I want more of this.

4/13/2020 - Caruso Does not like this wine:

Oh no, I don't know why, but it feels that more and more producers tend to sulfurize their wines too much. In this wine the nose is a wonderful burning match, though some of the fruit is lurking through. On the palate it is better. In the long finish you can estimate, what a great wine this could have been. But as long as you have it in your mouth the SO2 scent is dominating. What a shame!

7/7/2020 - theRealPepe Likes this wine:

My last one. Pear, mineral and flowers on the nose. Pear and limes on the palate. Decisive minerality that is more integrated than the electric jolt experienced when younger. I need to try more from this producer, if only to find out what "K.H." stands for. Excellent.

2/25/2020 - DaniCru Likes this wine:

Deep color Barbera, nose of tree bark and tobacco leaves.
Zesty acidity typical of Barbera from Asti in my experience. Black fruit gives it a loooooong finish. Chewy but not boring, the intense acidity keeps it interesting and lively. Drinks quickly. Can age.