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2008 Nikolaihof Riesling Reserve Steiner Hund
Riesling
- Austria
- Niederösterreich
- Wachau
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Community Tasting Notes 12
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Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 91 points
October 29, 2023 - Medium yellow. Very fresh. Good acidity. Some petrol, yellow flowers, spices, minerals and stones. Very nicely held together with good tension and energy.
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glou.sf Likes this wine: 94 points
April 25, 2023 - Nice, mature nose of petrol, lemon, peach, honey, apricot, and minerals. Good acidity on the palate with more lemon notes, a bit more honey, and peach, but overall quite fresh fruit flavors. Long finish. Lovely wine that needed a bit of air to wake up and was drinking really well right now.
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Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 90 points
November 28, 2022 - Golden color. Good minerality and freshness. Apricot, mango, some petrol. Complex and nuanced. Just a tad sweeter than dry. Drink now.
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brooklynguy wrote:
June 20, 2022 - Double decanted at 5, drank over 90 minutes or so at 7. Lovely stone fruits o the nose - apricots. Some flowers too. But the nose is not well articulated, nor is it bright and focused. The wine is a bit flat, seems like its best days happened already. Drink up.
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Boone's Farm wrote: 85 points
June 13, 2022 - Maybe this is just a bad bottle. Very disappointed. Nose was classic mountain flower and honeysuckle but very muted. Started off bitter and improved a little after an hour of air. A little quinine flavor and a little mineral. Hollow and thin. Just not a great wine.
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By Jean Fisch and David Rayer
Maturing Mosel: 10 years after retrospective of 2008, Issue #40, 4/1/2018 (link)(Nikolaihof Steiner Hund Riesling Reserve) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Terry Theise
2012 Austrian Catalog, 6/1/2012 (link)(Nikolaihof Riesling Steiner Hund "Reserve") ($77.00) This vineyard is existentially unique, as if it had its own magnetic fields. Druids would have built their megaliths there. Maybe at night a UFO lands silently and all the little space dudes get out and do some magic, I don’t know. But I know of no other great wine that seems so unknowable, overwhelming and haunting. For a Nikolaihof ‘08 this is markedly ripe (13%), and it shows a lot of counterpoint between its druidic exotics and Chartreuse-y herbalness, versus its jasmine and white chocolate yang side. Potentially great, it’s still busy working through its contradictions. The implosion of minerality may eventually mediate among them. A superb and complicated Riesling. + +
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2008
- Type White
- Producer Nikolaihof
- Varietal Riesling
- Designation Reserve
- Vineyard Steiner Hund
- Country Austria
- Region Niederösterreich
- SubRegion Wachau
- Appellation n/a
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 9 (8%)
- In Cellars 53 (49%)
- Consumed 47 (43%)
Food Pairing
No food pairings available.
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- DesignationReserve
- VineyardSteiner Hund
- CountryAustria
- RegionNiederösterreich
- SubRegionWachau
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