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White - Off-dry
2005 Schäfer-Fröhlich Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Spätlese
Riesling
- Germany
- Nahe
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Community Tasting Notes 45
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G_H wrote: 91 points
February 5, 2023 - Starting to hit that maturity plateau with some lemon perl and a hint of petrol. Good texture and with the sweetness starting to diminish a bit, this is in a good place right now.
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David Paris (dbp) wrote:
January 29, 2023 - Opened for 24 hours. Incredibly muted on the nose... Palate entry is really luscious, soft and round... elegant and pretty. The texture is quite incredible and smooth. Nice acidity, and moderate sweetness... but really not too much doing in the way of flavor complexity. Really not sure if this is showing this way due to the 24 hours of air or not, so I'll withhold a score. It's very nice, but it's just very simple and muted and mostly about its structural elements.
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lepetitchateau wrote: 92 points
September 25, 2022 - AP 13 - Has shed its primary fruit and is now showing a touch of petrol on the nose. Pleasant but perhaps a touch too sweet without the minerality to back it up - yet still enjoyable.
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VDLT Wine Likes this wine:
October 16, 2021 - Considerably better than the bottle 4 years ago. It was similarly lower in acidity than I would have liked, but it was better balanced and less flabby. It also was delicious and paired nicely with dim sum.
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cct wrote: 92 points
February 12, 2021 - Orchard fruit, honeysuckle, kaffir leaf, and slate on the nose. It's honeyed and rich on the palate with excellent RS/ acid balance and a sense of slate. This has depth and breadth while remaining focused. It's drinking well, but it feels like more might be to come. Outstanding alone and better with with spicy Panang curry.
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By Joel B. Payne
January/February 2007, IWC Issue #130 (link)(Weingut Schafer Frohlich Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Spatlese) Subscribe to see review text.
Rockss and Fruit
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By Lyle Fass
10/11/2007 (link)(Schafer-Frohlich Bockenauer Felseneck Spatlese) This is just getting better and better. Reductive nose which Tim Frohlich says he loves on my recent visit with him (blog post soon). Some mango, papaya. The ripeness of the vintage really comes through in the aromatics of this wine. The palate is like icing on a cake with perfect acidity intermingled all the way through. Rich ripe pit fruits on the complex and somewhat underdevoleped finish. It's only been open a 1/2 hour. This will be my weekend wine. Peek in every now and then.
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By Lyle Fass
5/9/2007 (link)(Schafer-Frohlich Bockenauer Felseneck Spatlese) For me this is the bottle that defines Schafer-Frohlich. A bit closed on the nose but everything is there. Ripe and complex, intense minerality, concentrated fruit flavors, raspberries, cassis with an amazingly long finish. Great Spatlese.
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By Lyle Fass
11/29/2006 (link)(Schafer-Frohlich Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Spatlese) Wow. This wine is really starting to strut its stuff. Always impressive but showing truly incredibly tonight. Nose shows some sulfur which really never blew off but under that is bright flowers, mango, apricots and intense minerality. The palate is where this wine really shines. Great concentration and extract over a sleek frame. Great elegance and purity. The mineral length is profound. There is also a slight, but you know it's there, botrytis that runs throughout that really separates this Spatlese from the pack. The finish is forever. Dynamite wine.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2005
- Type White - Off-dry
- Producer Schäfer-Fröhlich
- Varietal Riesling
- Designation Spätlese
- Vineyard Bockenauer Felseneck
- Country Germany
- Region Nahe
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation n/a
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 373 (54%)
- Consumed 315 (46%)
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