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• Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 95 points

  March 5, 2022 - Note made as I struggle with death by stiffy caused by this wine. Under the treacherous cork, note made about an hour after opening, scored as "Outstanding' on the CT Scale. It is a pricey wine but worth it.
  
  Colour is green-gold, leaning more towards golden.
  
  Nose is a heady rush of melons like those of Stormy Daniels, but also wet stone, ripe lemon and lemon curd. 'Dive in!' it murmurs, huskily. I immediately have to lock the doors. Some things require privacy.
  
  The palate delivers everything the nose promises; 'Hello sailor!' This delivers Intensities in 10 Cities, minus the weird far right posing (I always thought Ted Nugent was engaging in a send up of all that stuff, because it was so out there, that it simply couldn't be serious. I should have recalled that for all the very many good things and people in the disUnited States of America, large swathes are an irony free zone, including the otherwise splendid playing of Ted. But we digress...) and there is just this sensual element of 'Wang Dang! Sweet Poontang' about it all. I find myself wondering what would happen if I put an open bottle of Clemens Busch Fahrlay next to this - they are like male and female pheromones unleashed; might they breed and make lots of little Rieslings for me?
  
  There is, of course great length and intensity and there is the desirable minerality, but these things, usually so important, become a 'blah, blah, blah' compared to the huge emotional attraction of this wine.
  
  If Moselle and Rhine Pfalz were even close to this good at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries, it is no wonder that their status and prices rivalled White Burgundy.
  
  There is something appropriate in opening this wine on the weekend of the death of the great leg spinner, Shane Warne. He was a bit of a mixed bag as a human, but a tremendous talent as a sportsman and I like that he lived his life fast, hard and with joy. He understood that we are born to die. This wine represents the same. If you don't try it, if you don't sense it, you are just roadkill on the shitty backroads of life. There endeth the sermon from the Book of Whitbourne. Now, bugger off, I need to return to my Lorcher Krone.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2020
• Type White
• Producer Eva Fricke
• Varietal Riesling
• Designation Trocken
• Vineyard Lorcher Krone
• Country Germany
• Region Rheingau
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation n/a

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• Pending Delivery 2 (2%)
• In Cellars 100 (93%)
• Consumed 5 (5%)

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