April 14, 2024 - Interesting development:
Yellow to deep yellow color, reveals already (unexpected) maturity.
Nose: Spiceness and fine melted goose fat, and that's not negative.
Palate: Powerful, spicy and earthy, classic Palatinate Riesling. Very good balance, harmonious with a good drinking flow. We liked it very much with our sea fish.
2017 was generally a cold Riesling vintage. Nevertheless, wouldn't wait too long to drink it up.
December 28, 2022 - My previous note was from last December, and like that note, I'm finding this wine to be a little off from what I would expect from a riesling. I'm trying this side-by-side with the '17 Gerumpel, so it's possible this is a vintage specific issue at Burklin-Wolf. I will update this after I've had a glass of the Gerumpel.
Okay, so I just had a glass of the Gerumpel and that does not show like this wine, so maybe vintage & vineyard-specific. The nose here really displays more similarity with a white Burgundy than a Riesling. On the palate, the wine gives you some of the slate notes that bring you back to Germany, but I think served blind, this wine would be a challenge for a lot of tasters to identify as a Riesling.
As I probably concluded in my last note, an interesting and atypical wine.
December 4, 2022 - PnP, natural cork, 13% Alc., quite deep yellow color.
Nose: Yellow fruit, minerality and some creaminess.
Palate: Cool initial impression, pretty dry, harmonious acid, hardly any fruit, acacia, stony. Clear, straight and puristic. Had it with White Halibut, liked it.
From the coolest east facing location of the Bürklin Rieslings, i.e. also gives the grapes more time to ripen.
December 20, 2021 - This is a day 2 note from a bottle opened for dinner yesterday. I had this side-by-side with the 2019 and 2020, and this was so different that I decided to wait a day to see if the wine changed, but this seems fairly consistent with how the wine showed yesterday.
So on the nose this has a riper, "fatter" fruit note - bruised apple? There is adequate acidity on the palate, but it's not as lively as the two younger wines. I like this, but it certainly shows atypical - if I had this blind, I might call it a slightly advanced white Burg.
So while not bad by any stretch, so different than the other two vintages that I will try and grab another bottle soon just to confirm that this bottle was 100% sound.
February 8, 2020 - Kraftfull och djup. Druvtypisk karaktär med mineralfetma. Lång eftersmak. Mycket bra!
November 9, 2019 - Univinum wine fair (@EDEKA Ueltzhöfer, Heilbronn, Germany): Glass: Red Wine
*** brief notes for my own memory from tasting sip. No rating ***
Young, dense and tight. Also very fine, floral and elegant. Beautiful length and good potential. 90-91+
May 10, 2019 - Citron, lime, gröna äpplen, honung, grus, flinta och rejält med mineralsälta. Lång komplex eftersmak med en mäktig syra. Behöver ytterligare något år på sig för att slipa ner och balanserar syran.
November 30, 2018 - In the nose very cool, stony and earthy, the fruit is only in the background. Also very clear and puristic on the palate, has delicacy and a fresh acidity, has also some tannins, that give it a bit raw structure. Also in the mouth with white fruit, some flowers and a clear, long finish. Has a lot of character and is therefore one of my absolute favorite wines from this producer!