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• acyso wrote: 98 points

  January 2, 2023 - #16-99, 9% abv, 9821. From half-bottle. Scheurebe is one hell of a drug. Mango, passionfruit, guava, and rosewater(!) on the nose and palate. I love the herbal phenolic bitterness on the finish as well, which helps temper the intense, fruity sweetness here. Acidity is present, but doesn't play a large role in this wine -- it's just there in the right amount to keep all the other parts of this wine in check. Drinks like a tropical cocktail. Another Schwarz masterpiece, who somehow manages to craft wines of an over-the-top scale while keeping perfect balance, like the classical unstable equilibrium of Newtonian mechanics.

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• LW31 Likes this wine:

  November 26, 2022 - Gorgeous out of half bottle. The essence of Scheurebe. Perfect balance.

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• Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 98 points

  April 21, 2022 - From small capped bottle. Soaring spicy and perfumed nose. Sweet spicy pure and juicy - tons of acid. Citric with sweet tangerine, honey, juicy fruit. The palate is near perfect - so spherical and smooth and flavorful and amazing - tons of tangerine, honey, honeysuckle, spicy. Finish is long and complex and scintillating. Stunning. This has resolved some from the times I have had it before - less of a bruiser but so perfumed and lifted and complete. Thanks Jay! Nose - 5.5/6, Palate - 6/6, Finish - 5.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 2/2 = 19/20.

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• Caruso Likes this wine: 98 points

  October 10, 2021 - Golden. Intense nose of tropical fruits with mango, peaches, persimmon, brown sugar, sage, bergamot, honey, very complex. On the palate still sweet with refreshing acidity and great balance. Long, long finish. -2030+. 5/14/19/10

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• Caruso Likes this wine: 99 points

  April 11, 2020 - Deep golden, but without any hint of amber or orange tint. Unbelievable intense and ultimate complex nose and palate with most tropical fruits you can think of, along with brown sugar, spices. Long, longer... Even the cork is better in the 90's at MC. As if it would have been corked some years ago or yesterday. Perfect balance between fruit, sweetness and acidity. With further aging this is going to get less sweet. Even now it is not sweet enough anymore to go along with very sweet desserts. BA level. 5/15/19/10. -2030+. H.G. Schwarz has been honoured especially for his rieslaner. But I love his scheurebe sweet wines even more. What a tragedy that H.G. Schwarz retired in 2001. A date that became the end of wines like this at MC in terms of style and quality.

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• Vintage 1998
• Type White - Off-dry
• Producer Müller-Catoir
• Varietal Scheurebe
• Designation Auslese
• Vineyard Haardter Mandelring
• Country Germany
• Region Pfalz
• SubRegion n/a
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