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• lukeintowine wrote: 94 points

  February 14, 2024 - Brought to a Thai Restaurant by a friend.
  
  Outstanding wine! Ripe, concentrated yellow fruit, yet very balanced. Quite full-bodied for a Riesling.
  After having the wine with food, I could sense some wood on the palate, anyway if there is wood it is perfectly integrated.

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• Aravind Asok wrote:

  November 1, 2023 - Pop and pour. Deep golden color. On the nose: apricot, peach, soft lees, savory herbs. On the palate: fantastic concentration and acidity: apricot, peach, lemon, thyme. Lovely density and a long tangy finish. Wow.

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• IvanLi Likes this wine: 95 points

  February 4, 2022 - Deep golden in color the wine is very similar to the oestricher klosterberg but is even more viscous and concentrated. It tastes like an essence of dried apricots, petrol, peach compote and honey. Dry yet full with nice sweet extract and outstanding structure. I do love what Peter Jakob Kuhn does. Highly recommended.

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• pavel_p Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 4, 2021 - Recent purchase. Pnp. Pale golden yellow in the glass. Pretty petrol nose followed by more petrol on the attack. White fruit, very good balance, a touch of sweetness on the finish with some candied lemon and orange. Great Riesling given the challenging 2014 vintage!

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• rcb25 wrote:

  August 1, 2021 - Restaurant purchase. Peter Jakob Kühn makes some really idiosyncratic Rieslings. This spent two years in a large wooden vat on the lees and allowed to go through malolactic completely.
  
  The result is a dense, rich, and concentrated wine. Filled with peach and tropical fruit characters (pineapple and mango). On the palate while that concentration comes through, the structure still feels a bit rounded. There's a distinctive creaminess to it from extended lees contact and malo with a round and softer acid edge. Some petrol-filled smoky and salty finish. It felt like it was missing something, je se ne quoi.
  
  Took the remaining 1/3 of the bottle back home and consumed the rest about an hour later from a Grasl Cru. The fruit appeared to recede a bit on the nose to make way for a captivating mix of sweet and delicate white aromatic flowers: mock orange, aztec pearl, osmanthus burkwoodii, but on the palate it felt much the same as before.
  
  Aromatically, it's lovely, especially from the Grassl (what a difference the stem made), but on the palate it seems to fall short for my tastes. Clearly well made and with intention. There's concentration, complexity, depth, but I think the combination of richness from the lees and wooden vat and the rounder, softer acid feel from the malolactic makes this feel like a wine that speaks more to winemaking than a sense of place. AP 08 16
  
  ABV: 13.0%
  Closure: natural cork
  Decant: 90min at restaurant // 3h in when tasted at home
  Stem: non-descript white wine glass; later Grassl Cru
  Assemblage: two years on lees in a large wooden vat, full malo.

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• Vintage 2014
• Type White
• Producer Peter Jakob Kühn
• Varietal Riesling
• Designation Großes Gewächs
• Vineyard Oestricher Doosberg
• Country Germany
• Region Rheingau
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation n/a

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