Community Tasting Notes 5

• Guillaume-en-égypte Likes this wine: 92 points

  December 19, 2020 - Delicious dry Riesling, interplay of depth of fruit (with a slight suggestion of sweetness, while remaining dry) & ripe but piercing acidity. Slight spritz on opening, but still enjoyable - that had gone by the second day and the flavours seemed to deepen and mellow without losing the wine's very pleasing bite. Great with or without food - can see the comparison to mature Chablis premier Cru - some one made to the 2009 (wines I know much better - granny smith apples), but this is very much (German) Riesling & blah, blah - I realy like it & wish I had bought more when I had the chance. Great value at £25, 10 years from vintage. I do not know these wines well enough to start changing the drinking dates, but an end date of 2021 seems very conservative...

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• Conde Likes this wine: 92 points

  November 4, 2017 - The best riesling I've had and a great wine by all standards. A bit shy on the nose but with pleasantly developed notes of ripe, yellow stonefruit, hard honeycandy and wet stone. On the palate the wine is lean and smooth with not so little elegance. There is good sweet fruit (apricot, peach, yellow plum) and enough acidity to make it balanced. Will hold for several years yet, but ready now.
  We had it with steamed cod, fried crunchy bacon, bread diamonds and spinach.
  Second bottle, 30 March, 2018
  Briĺliant wine. There are some petroleum on the nose, but not very significant, instead the combination of sweetnes and acidity is very much Riesling!

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• dimdic wrote: 90 points

  November 5, 2014 - Surprising to taste strong and powerful fruits such as stonefruit, peach, melon, etc from a German Riesling. It's so fruity, rich and ripe. Hot region character. Contrary to refreshing elegant style of German riesling. Quite interesting. Score was mainly given to the strong fruitiness.

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• fanglangzhe Likes this wine: 90 points

  June 3, 2014 - Tasted less austere and better balanced than previous bottle. Melon, stone fruits, ripe citrus, minerals. I understand recent vintages of this wine may not have the 'alte reben' designation on the bottle but it's the exact same wine.

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• fanglangzhe Likes this wine: 88 points

  April 13, 2014 - Taste of pineapple, under ripe stone fruits, minerals, cucumber. Overall a bit austere and not good QPR at US$40. 88-89 pts.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type White
• Producer Weingut Josef Leitz
• Varietal Riesling
• Designation Alte Reben
• Vineyard Rüdesheimer Berg Rottland
• Country Germany
• Region Rheingau
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation n/a

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• In Cellars 16 (28%)
• Consumed 42 (72%)

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