Community Tasting Notes 18

• Ingmars wrote:

  February 11, 2023 - This, my last bottle, is a matted fullish yellow. Grapefruit aroma in lieu of the pungent pineapple and acacia of almost 12 months ago. Perhaps one could say, in a loose sense, that it is more ''minerally'' now. Maybe the fruit is declining, but this still has good concentration for an entry-level abfüller trocken bottling (A.P. 20 12). The wine has properly dry finish, but I can detect fruit sweetness here. Simple and short, but it does the job. Good plus.

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• Ingmars wrote:

  February 19, 2022 - A.P. 20 12. 11.5% The first of three private notes in the last half of 2012 substantially connect with my note today. "Certainly seems riper than previous vintages in my memory...Very good concentration for an entry-level riesling...This is a very open and generous Sauvage...Top Sauvage." is what I wrote not 12 months after harvest. Now it's a medium yellow colour. The nose is a little petrolly, but then reveals the pungent pineapple I find in riesling from the Rheingau. But then I get acacia as well, like I have with some riesling from the Barossa Valley in South Australia, and notes of very ripe lime. A very generous, impressively long and concentrated mouth for entry-level, indeed. Lovely sweet fruit here. It finishes with white as opposed to yellow fruit acid, which I find is a counterpoint to the earlier display of ripeness and actually makes me ask for a little more of that ripeness to follow-through on to the tail to complete the change in style. Texturally, this is Rheingau, but the flavour profile is close to Barossa. While it's not a conventional Sauvage in that it is more fruit than mineral, it is the better for it and deserves a very good plus rating. Looking over my notes, this is the best Sauvage I have drunk in 8 vintages from 2002 to 2011. It should remain at this plateau for three years. Incidentally, when looking at the alcohol % over these 8 vintages, up to 2005 they were a constant 12% (2006 unknown), with 11.5% from 2007 till 2011 (2010 unknown), except for A.P. 20 09 for the 2008 vintage which was 12% (cf. 11.5% shown on the later A.P. 21 09), leading me to infer that it was with the 2007 vintage for this label, and likely the other labels, when Breuer began to lower the alcohol content for the dry-tasting riesling wines.

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• Ramberg wrote: 86 points

  May 14, 2015 - Floral nose, lemons and grape, pears, with some hints of beginning maturity, touch wet cardboard box and a little bit of wet slate.
  Palate shows rather tart yellow grapefruit, tart lemons, pear and green apples.
  Very high acidity and very dry on the finish.
  Feels a bit unbalanced and simple, with too much acidity and not enough ripe fruit and rs for balance.
  A simpler wine in the Breauer line up, and a bit past it’s prime, compared to previous bottles I had about 2 years ago, that showed better balanced.
  Still, if you like Rieslings with very high acidity, this might be your thing.
  Good, but was better.
  (85 – 86)

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• guitarkim wrote: 87 points

  August 18, 2013 - Consistent

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• guitarkim Likes this wine: 87 points

  June 29, 2013 - Consistent with last note.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type White
• Producer Georg Breuer
• Varietal Riesling
• Designation Sauvage
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Germany
• Region Rheingau
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• Appellation n/a

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