Community Tasting Notes 26

• Ingmars wrote:

  March 4, 2024 - Two bottles opened. The colour from the 1st has more gold than yellow and looks more matted and advanced than it should be. Slightly oxidative nose of Golden Delicious brand yellow apples and bruised apple. The level of sweetness is spot-on for the category, but the palate is flat, with an old apple flavour, lacking interest and vitality. The fresh apple acid finish can't save this from being a poor bottle.
  
  Another bottle is withdrawn and this is more like it. Like the bottle had in March last year, this also is a matted, dullened medium yellow, but clearly fresher than the 1st one. The nose is floral and white-fruited. Correct kabi weight in the mouth, with decently ripe yellowish and white fruit flavours at the front and middle, but building more colour towards the tail. Unspecial length, though. Very good, but not more. Perhaps better on 2nd day and warmer? Indeed, from a half, it is! Nose is more complex, with white melon, ripening peach, cherry blossom, nougat and honeyed notes. The mouth is layered and has had length added to it. The VG+ button is getting hit enough to show this bottle is pretty much like the nice one in March 2023. Closer to room temperature is the thing to observe here.

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• Ingmars wrote:

  March 31, 2023 - In a Xmas Eve trio of German riesling, the other two being a 2005 Weingut Winter Dittelsheimer Leckerberg Riesling Auslese and a 2004 St. Urbans-Hof Piesporter Goldtröpfchen Riesling Spätlese, this stood out as a the superior wine. I've criticized bottles drunk during the autumn of 2022 as being soft, but this one didn't convey that impression. Even allowing for the context, this was a better performance than those fall bottles. A yellowish colour, this was about pungent white fruit, sponti, barely perceptible sweetness (proving insufficient for my daughter) and a small electricity.
  
  Moving on to a bottle drunk on 24.03 - the colour is a matted, dullened medium yellow. Nose of slightly pungent yellow stone fruit, with a bit of honey and blossom later, as the wine warms. Two hours in and a variant of ginger appears. In the mouth there is minor sweetness, like the last note, but the tail reveals more acid than previously, making the case not for restraint by the winemaker, but for the conditions of the vintage in general. In that sense, the palate is somewhat similar to a Mosel kabinett from a decade earlier, except that it is softer at the edges. The palate provides much more interest than the nose and the middle is where it is at its best. Up until the 90 minute mark, this was very good, but this bottle just loved its contents being served at room temperature and the mouth was becoming more focused and interesting, hitting the VG+ button again and again.

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• Ingmars wrote:

  October 15, 2022 - Mid-yellow. Earlier this year it was showing sponti and a bit of ginger before the nose faded. A couple of bottles over the week have confirmed that the difficult vintage conditions have now caught up with this wine. Sniffing hard enough, I suppose I could find a clouded view of the vineyard from some vantage points, but the rather straightforward nose was more like a QbA version of the site. The palate has kabinett weight and is properly concentrated, with juicy yellow stone-fruit dominating over white fruit. Yet for me, the Ellergrub should have it the other way around, with white fruit dominating. I like the restrained sweetness and the lovely pungency, but it does seem a bit soft for this label. At eight years of age it can't be slumbering, surely? Very good despite this criticism, but clearly not reaching the heights of the 2007, 2009 and 2011 versions. Drink this over the next summer.

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• vinkeger wrote: 89 points

  April 29, 2021 - Strågul farge. Åpen og ganske utviklet nese. Litt mer endimensjonal enn forventet, mangler noen kanskje noen lyse topptoner. Flott balanse i munn. Sødmefull, men med høy syre. Utviklet også her.

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• CADomer Likes this wine: 92 points

  February 26, 2021 - What a delightful bottle of kabinett that yet again shows that you should buy based on producer and not vintage.
  This was wonderfully elegant and creamy textured with sweet herbs, piquant white nectarines, Valencia oranges, and a touch of petrol on the nose.
  The spicy finish was long and tangy which was good because of the highly evaporative nature of the wine. The finish luckily lasted almost as long as the bottle did! Delicious wine that paired nicely with my spicy plate of shrimp vindaloo.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2014
• Type White
• Producer Weiser-Künstler
• Varietal Riesling
• Designation Kabinett
• Vineyard Enkircher Ellergrub
• Country Germany
• Region Mosel Saar Ruwer
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation n/a

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• In Cellars 154 (50%)
• Consumed 145 (48%)

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