April 6, 2023 - 94+
September 27, 2019 - Riesling! (Yokohama, Japan): Served blind. Slight kerosene, lime and green apple, cream, with time a little peach and sweet spice and mineral notes. Juicy but sweet rather than off dry, breadth, a little alcohol warmth, sweetly spiced, the stone fruit and apple more to the fore but still with that lime underpin. I called German, not Mosel, Auslerse 2001
July 22, 2019 - Dark golden, Honey and flowers in the nose and on the palate, medium sweetness and length.
Very good wine but lacking a bit acid, strcuture and length to be great.
I expected a bit more from this famous estate. A bit to one dimensional for my taste.
Fully mature but will Keep in shape for another 5 years.
March 30, 2019 - Nice sweet pure juicy apple flavors with nice depth and good sweetness. Clean and sense of uplifting freshness with lovely concentration and floral notes.
July 10, 2017 - Leaking cork...
Second cork fatality this year and only ~20 btls of wine downed...
July 24, 2015 - A nearly perfect wine. Bright anergetic and completely balanced. Words couldn't do this justice.
October 18, 2014 - After a week in the fridge WITHOUT cork, the last glass of this btl showed increased depth and balance. Amazing aromas with just the right amount of petrochemistry and lush fruits. Giving a "later youth" impression.
Per os, this is now (finally) singing again.
What a fantastic way to grow a young German wine. Now sporting all the aromas from previous encounters including an enhanced 'maturing' fruity palette on the palate. Fabulous length and the acids lend themselves to beautiful somersaults as you swollow.
I do miss the transparency of other Riesling wines in this one. Please forgive me, but it renders the impression a little bit on the plump side. Still, this girl will never need to worry about dancing partners :-)
We shared a mid-week glass of this wine and wife frowned just as previous Saturday. But: tonight, she only smiled :-)
Tonight preceded by a 2005 Cha de Beaucastel and followed by a young Languedoc that overperformed heavily.
I almost lost faith compared to expectations and previous btls enjoyed. But it made a terriffic come-back. We will try to be kind and not open the next btl (8 btls to go) before 2020.
October 12, 2014 - Wonderful exotic fruits, petrol, and mineral notes on the nose and sweet palate with long finish. Paired well with Indian cuisine.
October 11, 2014 - Opened with potato crisps with nori taste and a great movie after kendo practice.
No decant and slightly too warm rendered this "only" 90 points. Nose is far more richer than the palate tonight. Half the btl placed in the fridge without a cork for further pleasures tomorrow night, and hopefully an even better and more rich experience.
May 4, 2014 - Cellartracker in the flesh #2 with Stefan, Akiko, Atsushi & Yukari. (Le Message, Yokohama, Japan): Medium minus aromas of apple, peach, lime, slight herbs (thyme?) and slight kerosene. In the mouth the wine is off dry with flavours of peach, ripe apple. The wine is very clean tasting with slight mid palate coarseness and a touch of alcoholic warmth on the medium plus length finish. I guessed German, Auslese, warm vintage - I plumped for 06 but then I don't know my German vintages I'm ashamed to say - further South than Mosel.