Aroma of sweet stone fruit (peach, apricot); a few exotic aromas; slightly smoky-tobacco and wet stone; very nice nose!
Very juicy and fruity on the palate with a clearly sweet core; some caramel; lots of melting and creaminess; beautiful light minerality; then comes a very lively, lemony acidity that is not particularly well integrated; some grip from the tannins at the end; medium-long finish.
The wine lacks some of the depth and complexity that I expect from a Grosses Gewächs.
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This is coming together as a full bodied, quite powerfull rieslng, speaking of the terroir, concentrated, a bit creamy, with mineral notes, a core of citrus and a great balance and length, This will go on, of course, but seems open for business. #Kandestederne#SR
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Decent GG riesling, but not at all on par with comparable Nahe estates. While beautiful on the nose, the fruit lacks the nerve and depth in the mouth expected from a GG. Given the vintage, this was a disappointment, but overall an OK effort. 90?
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Very good wine, bordering on 93. To tell you the truth I drank this wine a wee to quickly not allowing enough time for it to fully open. Initially lots of green apples while as it opened up more minerality and stony characters. Quite a lot of fizz which went away in 5-10 mins.
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Stor og rik på nese med modne gule epler, et tydelig mineralsk preg og et hint av våte løvblad.
Konsentrert, med rik stor frukt som vokser fint i munnen uten at det blir vulgært. Nesten litt oljete tekstur. Gule epler, lime, krydder og et tydelig flintpreg. Vinen mangler kanskje litt kompleksitet, dette kan vokse seg fint til. Syren er tilstedeværende, men gir egentlig bare en fin nerve til vinen.
Dette er en flott vin som viser rieslingens flotte karakter og dens samspill mellom frukt og syre. Her får du også den fine mineraliteten som mange kvalitetsviner fra Tyskland viser.
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Very pale yellow color with almost watery colorless rim. The nose is very intense and full of aromas that promise crisp character: there are aromas of lime and lemon, some green apples, a little bit of flinty smoke, a hint of beeswax and a touch of sharp, reductive sulfite character. Overall the nose feels very youthful and somewhat rich without any sense of sweetness. The wine is very intense, racy and crisp on the palate, yet with enough ripeness to keep the wine from tasting too austere and forbiddingly tightly-knit. There are flavors of ripe citrus fruits, juicy red apples, some hints of sweet peach-driven stone fruits, a little bit of apple blossom and other white flowers and a touch of vague spice set against a shimmering backdrop of stony minerality. The acidity is very high, but there is some sense of concentration to the fruit to keep the acid cut somewhere in reins. The finish is very long, crisp and intense with pronounced steely minerality and very youthful flavors of lemony citrs fruits, tart green apples, some saline tang and a hint of sweeter red and yellow apples.
True to the Diel style, this is a very serious, precise and ridiculously acid-driven effort that is surprisingly approachable for a Diel GG at this age. However, the wine seems to be all about aging potential, so there is definitely no need whatsoever to open one of these babies at least during the following 10 years or so. The wine is so very youthful that it comes across a bit straightforward and one-dimensional, being mostly about piercing minerality and tart fruits, but I can imagine this'll become something magical once the fruit starts to express more tertiary elements. In a tasting of 12 Austrian and German top Rieslings from 2015, this wasn't my no.1 favorite, but perhaps the most promising one - I think there's a good chance this will outshine the rest, given enough age. Great value at 35€.
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4/24/2024 - Nora123 wrote: 89 Points
Aroma of sweet stone fruit (peach, apricot); a few exotic aromas; slightly smoky-tobacco and wet stone; very nice nose!
Very juicy and fruity on the palate with a clearly sweet core; some caramel; lots of melting and creaminess; beautiful light minerality; then comes a very lively, lemony acidity that is not particularly well integrated; some grip from the tannins at the end; medium-long finish.
The wine lacks some of the depth and complexity that I expect from a Grosses Gewächs.
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8/6/2021 - beatles wrote: 92 Points
This is coming together as a full bodied, quite powerfull rieslng, speaking of the terroir, concentrated, a bit creamy, with mineral notes, a core of citrus and a great balance and length, This will go on, of course, but seems open for business.
#Kandestederne#SR
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5/8/2020 - Larre wrote: 90 Points
Decent GG riesling, but not at all on par with comparable Nahe estates. While beautiful on the nose, the fruit lacks the nerve and depth in the mouth expected from a GG. Given the vintage, this was a disappointment, but overall an OK effort. 90?
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12/21/2019 - Buick455 wrote: 91 Points
Same as last note.
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9/28/2019 - Buick455 wrote: 90 Points
Very nice. Pale yellow color. Very fresh, crisp, minerals, apples, lime.
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12/18/2017 - jrh82 Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very good wine, bordering on 93. To tell you the truth I drank this wine a wee to quickly not allowing enough time for it to fully open. Initially lots of green apples while as it opened up more minerality and stony characters. Quite a lot of fizz which went away in 5-10 mins.
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11/20/2017 - Andre Brattland wrote: 92 Points
Stor og rik på nese med modne gule epler, et tydelig mineralsk preg og et hint av våte løvblad.
Konsentrert, med rik stor frukt som vokser fint i munnen uten at det blir vulgært. Nesten litt oljete tekstur. Gule epler, lime, krydder og et tydelig flintpreg. Vinen mangler kanskje litt kompleksitet, dette kan vokse seg fint til. Syren er tilstedeværende, men gir egentlig bare en fin nerve til vinen.
Dette er en flott vin som viser rieslingens flotte karakter og dens samspill mellom frukt og syre. Her får du også den fine mineraliteten som mange kvalitetsviner fra Tyskland viser.
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11/4/2017 - forceberry wrote: 93 Points
12,5% alcohol.
Very pale yellow color with almost watery colorless rim. The nose is very intense and full of aromas that promise crisp character: there are aromas of lime and lemon, some green apples, a little bit of flinty smoke, a hint of beeswax and a touch of sharp, reductive sulfite character. Overall the nose feels very youthful and somewhat rich without any sense of sweetness. The wine is very intense, racy and crisp on the palate, yet with enough ripeness to keep the wine from tasting too austere and forbiddingly tightly-knit. There are flavors of ripe citrus fruits, juicy red apples, some hints of sweet peach-driven stone fruits, a little bit of apple blossom and other white flowers and a touch of vague spice set against a shimmering backdrop of stony minerality. The acidity is very high, but there is some sense of concentration to the fruit to keep the acid cut somewhere in reins. The finish is very long, crisp and intense with pronounced steely minerality and very youthful flavors of lemony citrs fruits, tart green apples, some saline tang and a hint of sweeter red and yellow apples.
True to the Diel style, this is a very serious, precise and ridiculously acid-driven effort that is surprisingly approachable for a Diel GG at this age. However, the wine seems to be all about aging potential, so there is definitely no need whatsoever to open one of these babies at least during the following 10 years or so. The wine is so very youthful that it comes across a bit straightforward and one-dimensional, being mostly about piercing minerality and tart fruits, but I can imagine this'll become something magical once the fruit starts to express more tertiary elements. In a tasting of 12 Austrian and German top Rieslings from 2015, this wasn't my no.1 favorite, but perhaps the most promising one - I think there's a good chance this will outshine the rest, given enough age. Great value at 35€.
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