These were good, not great. Exuberant fruit, slightly grassy, which was a bit weird. Good value at $20, but in the world of Riesling there are great values at $20, so not a rebuy.
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Holidays 2017: This was just the style I like in a riesling – aromatic, with high-toned fruit and zesty acidity - yumbang! White peach, ripe yellow peach, sea salt, with a hint of baked pears.
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Pale green color. Very aromatic, but also noticeably green-toned nose with aromas of currant leaves and white currants, some ripe yellow apples, a little bit of sweet apricots and a slightest touch of reductive hard-boiled egg skunk. The wine feels ripe and medium-dry to medium-sweet on the palate with very light weight and flavors of fresh apples, freshly sliced pear, currant leaves, some volatile pear drop character, a little bit of apricot and a hint of honey. Overall the wine feels very expressive and super-fruity - even a bit excessively so, for a Riesling. The acidity feels moderately high and is well in balance with the sugar. The finish is more acid-driven than the midpalate and also somewhat closed with lively but surprisingly brief and un-fruity flavors of steely minerality, chalky bitterness, a little bit of pithy grapefruit and a hint of honey. Furthermore, there feels almost a slightest touch of tannic grip in the aftertaste.
This was a good and interesting effort and I wrote that this was "a lovely effort for a Sauvignon Blanc, only if it were one". Even though I knew perfectly well that this was a Riesling Kabinett blind tasting, I was rather confused by those Sauvignon-ish currant notes and subtle acetic notes of pear drops that I normally don't associate with Rieslings - especially ones so obviously from Mosel. Yes, with its combination of feather-light body, steely minerality and moderately noticeable residual sugar, there was no question if this was a Mosel Riesling or not. Overall I thought that the wine was still all too young and thus showing somewhat poorly at the moment - partly reductive, partly all too primary - but the wine did have its own share of fans and in the end it received 7 points in our Kabinett Cup of 32 Rieslings from 2015, making it the 5th best wine of the evening. Based on my impressions, I think this wine will need at least a few years more before it starts to show well and more than 10 years before it hits its apogee. No hurry with this wine.
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3/28/2019 - Yagil wrote: 90 Points
Intense petroleum nose and palate
Very good
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1/8/2019 - Enfant sauvage wrote:
These were good, not great. Exuberant fruit, slightly grassy, which was a bit weird. Good value at $20, but in the world of Riesling there are great values at $20, so not a rebuy.
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12/31/2017 - pgb67 wrote: 92 Points
Holidays 2017: This was just the style I like in a riesling – aromatic, with high-toned fruit and zesty acidity - yumbang! White peach, ripe yellow peach, sea salt, with a hint of baked pears.
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4/22/2017 - forceberry wrote: 89 Points
Tasted blind in Kabinett Cup 2015. 10,5% alcohol.
Pale green color. Very aromatic, but also noticeably green-toned nose with aromas of currant leaves and white currants, some ripe yellow apples, a little bit of sweet apricots and a slightest touch of reductive hard-boiled egg skunk. The wine feels ripe and medium-dry to medium-sweet on the palate with very light weight and flavors of fresh apples, freshly sliced pear, currant leaves, some volatile pear drop character, a little bit of apricot and a hint of honey. Overall the wine feels very expressive and super-fruity - even a bit excessively so, for a Riesling. The acidity feels moderately high and is well in balance with the sugar. The finish is more acid-driven than the midpalate and also somewhat closed with lively but surprisingly brief and un-fruity flavors of steely minerality, chalky bitterness, a little bit of pithy grapefruit and a hint of honey. Furthermore, there feels almost a slightest touch of tannic grip in the aftertaste.
This was a good and interesting effort and I wrote that this was "a lovely effort for a Sauvignon Blanc, only if it were one". Even though I knew perfectly well that this was a Riesling Kabinett blind tasting, I was rather confused by those Sauvignon-ish currant notes and subtle acetic notes of pear drops that I normally don't associate with Rieslings - especially ones so obviously from Mosel. Yes, with its combination of feather-light body, steely minerality and moderately noticeable residual sugar, there was no question if this was a Mosel Riesling or not. Overall I thought that the wine was still all too young and thus showing somewhat poorly at the moment - partly reductive, partly all too primary - but the wine did have its own share of fans and in the end it received 7 points in our Kabinett Cup of 32 Rieslings from 2015, making it the 5th best wine of the evening. Based on my impressions, I think this wine will need at least a few years more before it starts to show well and more than 10 years before it hits its apogee. No hurry with this wine.
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3/13/2017 - Ebrim wrote:
No proper notes - tropical fruit, touch moldy? Intense and rich, concentrated, very good 90-91p
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