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White - Sweet/Dessert
1976 Weingut Schuster-Weißenborn Ungsteiner Osterberg Huxelrebe Trockenbeerenauslese
Huxelrebe
- Germany
- Pfalz
Community Tasting Notes 4
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Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 points
February 9, 2020 - Very similar to my previous tasting note - and a very similar experience. This time about a quarter of the bottle remained in the fridge until 6 March 2020 (almost four weeks!) and the wine was completely intact. These old TBA’s are really indestructible.
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Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 points
August 31, 2017 - A private tasting (at home): Deep and rich amber colour, Alpine herbs and flowers and honey, full-on sweet but with a lovely balancing freshness, subtle bitters, energetic for a 41 year old non-Riesling sweet wine, really powerful and concentrated, does not excel in nuance or finesse, but an impressive TBA all the same (92). What was left in the bottle (about 1/4 - 1/3), remained in the fridge until 16 September (!) and was quite intact when I retasted it. The Ricola notes had receded a bit and there were lovely flavours of dried fruit, honey and figs. I think I liked it even better than on the day when it was opened and this will clearly last for decades to come (93).
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Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 points
December 24, 2014 - A private dinner (Restaurant Bord'eau **, Amsterdam, NL): Very similar to my previous note; perhaps a little more Firne and a little less floral.
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Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 points
October 29, 2014 - A business dinner (@ Home): Deep amber-gold, like a Bual Madeira, green rim; attractive nose, good depth, caramel and Huxelrebe flowers, mineral freshness, hint of old "Firne"; medium sweet palate, lovely oval shape, caramel and butterscotch flavours, intense, bright acidity, balancing Alpine bitters; excellent length. Not the most complex or refined of TBA's, but very impressive for what it is - and at almost 40 years of age. The bottle still carried the original pricetag from Weinhaus Altenessen in Essen (Germany) - they charged DM 97.60, no trifling sum in the late 1970's!
Wine Definition
- Vintage 1976
- Type White - Sweet/Dessert
- Producer Weingut Schuster-Weißenborn
- Varietal Huxelrebe
- Designation Trockenbeerenauslese
- Vineyard Ungsteiner Osterberg
- Country Germany
- Region Pfalz
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation n/a
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- In Cellars 0
- Consumed 0
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