2022 Eva Fricke Lorchhäuser Seligmacher Riesling
Community Tasting Note
Rote Kappelle Likes this wine:
Monday, April 29, 2024 - Oh! I do hate being the first to review a vintage of a wine. I like to stand on the shoulders of giants, but even pygmies will do. I can carefully calibrate what I write based on others and avoid the risk that is expressed in the saying 'better to be silent and seem a fool than to speak and prove it'.
At any rate, this is a very pleasing Riesling (almost rhymes) - there are some reductive elements but they don't seem out of balance to me and whilst there is some ripe apple, there is also a deal of lovely tropical fruits and some lemon. The palate has zing and a sense of slate/wet stone that I like. The acid is fine and whilst, to my palate, perhaps a little fierce, I think most drinkers will not find it so.
Guzzle now and over the next few years. Cellar if you want to take some risks with the reductive elements.
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Comment posted by pemazel:
4/30/2024 10:38:00 AM - Eva Fricke is momentarily a hype. And in my view overpriced (as a result?).
Comment posted by Rote Kappelle:
5/1/2024 7:38:00 PM - Naughty, wicked Pemazel! Never shall the hallowed name of Fricke be besmirched. However, it is true that there seems to be some hype about her wines. But other than some of the 2022's I have not found the hype to lack substance and I haven't found the wines over-priced (although this can be a fairly subjective call).