Community Tasting Notes 14

• acyso wrote: 88 points

  August 16, 2023 - Dinner at Chengdu Impression (Chicago, IL): Very ripe and sweet, drinking more like a light Auslese or straight-up Spätlese, which was pretty much expected. Still quite fruity, with a little more bent towards tropical fruit than Midwest orchard fruit. A modest spice note, and quite forward with the fruit and flavour profile. Given the level, not a huge surprise this isn't as complex on the palate as many other wines tonight.

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• Arinbraghe Likes this wine:

  May 25, 2015 - In a great place for drinking and I would indeed recommend to drink soon, before the fruit slips further towards the burnished/mature end of the spectrum. But on the other hand I am glad to have gotten at this now, rather than 5 years ago, since I have to think this would have seemed overly unctuous at the time -- and indeed everyone who's reviewed this wine has taken pains to note the 16-point font sweetness. So for my palate this is at a terrific inflection point now. While there's still palpable minerality you get the sense that the acid will be the first element to slip; another compelling reason to drink in the near term (Salil always writes a great tasting note and mentions high acidity; our bottle showed considerably less four years further on). But it's just adorable right now -- I mean, who doesn't love a busty German girl?

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• Hotspur21 Likes this wine: 91 points

  August 23, 2013 - Enough sweetness for a Spätlese, still very young. The Weil-tropicality is complemented by green banana. Huge acidity swings back on the finish. Not as wild as its Mosel counterparts, but extremely well made and delicious. Drink or hold.

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• Fiorano wrote: 89 points

  March 23, 2013 - No formal notes taken. Fully mature, with decent length, adequate acidity and good fruit, but a moderate finish. Enjoyable but not spectacular.

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• Clos & Cru wrote: 89 points

  October 26, 2012 - fully mature, lots mineral, slate noes, diesel, rubber but length is short

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2001
• Type White
• Producer Weingut Robert Weil
• Varietal Riesling
• Designation Kabinett
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Germany
• Region Rheingau
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation n/a

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• In Cellars 59 (53%)
• Consumed 53 (47%)

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