Deep golden core. Amazing nose of pure peach and apricot. Medium-sweet, wonderfully rich and concentrated, yet built on a steely core of acidity that keeps everything in impeccable balance. The 2001s continue to impress. This is utterly beautiful.
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Perhaps not the best stored bottle, but still alive and kicking with plenty of time left. Dark golden color with lots of acid to balance the fruit. Long finish. Really nice wine. Opened a bottle of the 2002 version of this wine from the same source about a week before that was completely oxidized, so this really showcases the strength of the 2001 vintage.
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Dark gold/amber in color Explosive aromas of apricot/ banana/ tropical fruit - mango Palate shows moderate RS but searing acidity which cuts through - the RS is probably way more than expected on tasting Really drinking nicely at this point and appears eternal
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This has scents of straight mango purée. Some notes of mandarin, honey, and pineapple but the assertive flavour note is ripe mangos. Quite juicy, lightly sweet with mellowed acidity. I’d say it’s drinking stellar now.
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No notes taken but drinking very well presently. Just a classic and well extracted Riesling. Moderate RS but enough to keep it perfectly balanced. Fantastic now but will last for years.
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All full throttle Riesling LH all the way. In a great spot. On day 2 even more layered with honeyed gold apricot. Sonnaofagun. I should have bought more. Delicious!
Although the complexity, concentration and length are all there for an outstanding, fully developed Riesling... I think it could have used a touch more acid. Based on other reviews, I may have had an improperly stored bottle... purchased second hand.
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New Year's Eve at cousin Mathew's. PnP Golden in color. Nose of tropical fruit and lemon zest. Honey, mango, apricot and perhaps kumquat on the palate. A little flint or mineral in the background. Long finish. Very nice!
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Dark gold colour, intense, complex aromas of citrus peel, honey and a little petrol on the nose. Full bodied due to its residual sugar balanced well by fresh acidity. Quite a lot of sulfite on the nose. Still in excellent condition with years ahead of it.
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Opened with Emilio at dinner. 3rd time I have had this. Solid cork. Medium yellow color. This had very little petrol. Still vibrant and lively but very deep and developed. Loaded with apricot and tropical fruit notes. Minerally finish. Just an excellent wine and a very serious candidate very greatest Auslese made in the spectacular 2001 vintage. 98 points.
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First of these I've opened in four years - mainly because I haven't been able to find them in the crawl space : ) This wine is testament to the capacity of wine to develop with cellar time, having transformed in character completely from a wine of pure finesse and needle-point acidity to a medium-bodied dessert wine in which the acidity appears as the backbone to a broad, well-buffered, texturally pillowy, with prominent but balanced sweetness and depth, as well as finesse. Quite a wine. Shows better after a day open on the counter, so no rush, imho.
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At Rolling Spring Roll - it took som time to really emerge, showing primarily syrupy sugar. The fruit remains fresh and vivid. In time, it developed more interesting nuances, while a balancing petrol notes sustained. I suspect this could get better still as the sweetness gives way to mature expressions of the fruit and acidity. Quite a lovely drink now though.
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The last of three bottles over the past 5 years and the best. One of the most interesting and, easily, one of the most delicious wines one can drink. The flavors just go on and on. With fabulous food at Cosme, NYC super upscale Haute-Mexican.
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Big and beautiful yet lithe and feline. Rippling and oh so fast. Utterly compelling and completely irresistible. Fresh fruit mashed by stony granite. Of truly freakish proportions and quixotic depths . Like Bo Jackson. The contradiction that is the essence of Riesling. Brilliant!
Golden color. Gorgeous bouquet of apricot, stone and ripe peaches with a subtle petrol undertone. Like biting into a ripe, dripping peach, also apple, stone and melon. Terrific balancing acidity; long, lingering finish. Just wonderful stuff- thanks J3. It will no doubt hold for a long time, but I don't know that I could keep my hands off of it. It's in a great place and I see no reason to wait any longer.
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Opened by J3 at Sun Wah. Second time I've had this in the last year. This is a beauty, but did morph a bit at the end of the evening in a concerning way. Pop and pour, with beautiful notes of tropical citrus and petrol. Everything in perfect balance at this point. However, by the end of the evening, I thought the sweetness became cloying and vastly detracted from the earlier experience. Perhaps this was a result of the lengthy evening and the bottle sitting at room temp for several hours. I did not detract from the score because there's no way this bottle would have lasted as long as it did if there weren't 14 other bottles open as well.
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Jcubed brought this.Clear deep yellow color. Just a beautiful well balanced wine which is just as good as when I had this on release in 2003. More serious now than 11 years ago and a little deeper. Still tropical with notes of pineapple and crisp apple balanced by solid acidity. Glad I have 3 of these left. No hurry to drink these but they are ready if you want to. 96 points.
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Full yellow. Broad, deep ripe peach and some sulfur which was slow to dissipate. Moderately sweet with a touch of honey. Rich and surprisingly loose for a 2001.
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Opened by Dan at CWM dinner at Thai Cuisine. Beautiful petrol notes with citrus on the nose. Tropical citrus and spice on the palate with a long finish. Beautiful.
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Light golden. Honeyed tangerine, a little fusel and some peach. Medium weight (definitely not Mosel lightness), rich, moderately sweet, but well circumscribed by acidity. Delicious Auslese approaching BA level, probably approaching peak drinking over the next several years.
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AP 0702. Lots of petrol on the nose with some grapefruit and slight skunk aromas. On the palate this just lovely. Polished, deep but light and lacy feel with nice complexity. Really focused and precise (I know German Riesling cliche but it holds true). Superb length and finish. I would wager, just beginning its lengthy plateau of drinking pleasure.
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Golden-hued, modest tropical fruit on the nose, with 20 minutes of air, increasingly focused, precise, with acid sucking up the fruit and sugar to give knife-edge balance with some body, but still light and very fine. A good bottle for before or after the meal. Because of its great finesse, not sure I'd drink this with food. Maybe some thinly-sliced smoked salmon or trout on toast.
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I don't normally have the patience to age a riesling like this, but was rewarded for holding out on this one. Beautiful dark golden color and showing a broad, expansive range of citrus and honey flavors together with a slight dark weight and dryness that made the wine all the more interesting and elegant.
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Full yellow. Ripe peach and honey. Sweet. Lighter weight to start but picks up weight with air. Nice spiciness. Pretty much ready now. Not the most complex or bright Riesling ever, but very enjoyable for its depth and freshness of fruit.
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Wonderful nose, yellow fruit perfume and kerosene and peachy. Very well balanced, rich dried pineapples and apricots, yet smooth supple sweetness undertones to complement the fruitiness. Fantastic riesling with just the right balance of sweetness and fruit.
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Wines of Strength and Elegance - Kelvin and Marlene's Combined Birthday Dinner (Absinthe, Bukit Pasoh): Wow. This rounded up an trio of absolutely superb white wines. It had wonderful nose, exploding with tropical notes of pineapples and apricots, sweet red apples and ripe peach, all drizzled with a little bit kerosene. Still young, but already so expressive. The palate showed off all that was good about the great 2001 vintage, with a wonderful, melting balance to its ripe, voluptuous flavours of pineapples and apricots, peach and sweet lemons, all melded into a beautiful whole. It did not quite have the tingly nervosity of a top Mosel, but there was a lemony, citrus balance to the whole mouthful that lent the wine a lively energy in spite of its rich, creamy power. Beautiful. The finish was pure Rheinhessen - a veritable fruit orchard just blooming in the back-palate along with wafts of sweet florals. A peach of an Auslese, absolutely delicious. It easily needs a decade more, but it was beautiful even now, especially when paired with a fatty pork belly dish.
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Mostly honey, botrytis, brown sugar flavors. Some pear, apricot, lime, and grapefruit too. Barely a hint of petrol. Drink or hold. Paired well with pork chops rubbed with Penzey's Galena Street mix.
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Identical to last bottle 8 months ago. Pale gold. Great nose, complex mix of flowers, tropical fruit, hints of petrol and earth. Light-medium weight, great fruit/acid/sweetness balance, medium-long finish, showing early signs of maturity, likely to get more complex over the next 5-10 years.
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Glowing golden yellow. Soaring honey-crisp apple that shows some pristine botrytis. Very sweet, rich and powerful. Interestingly, there is a petrol aspect on the palate that I did not detect on the nose. The sweet fruit is heavenly to the finish which is zippy and perfectly balancing. A wine for after dinner or a fruit tart. Great juice. (95)
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EWG does LQ @ SK (Starry Kitchen, Los Angeles): Herbal, celery like notes on the nose. Very light bodied for Auslese but well balanced. Nice lightly tart acids. In a good place already.
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Pale gold. Great nose, complex mix of flowers, tropical fruit, hints of petrol and earth. Light-medium weight, great fruit/acid/sweetness balance, medium-long finish, showing early signs of maturity, likely to get more complex over the next 5-10 years. Outstanding.
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This is really great, and is starting to develop some maturity, with the sweetness less cloying and some petrol aromas. This can age for a significantly longer time but is excellent now. When it was young it had more tropical fruit aromas but now has developed more mineral and earthy aromas and flavours. I enjoyed it young and and enjoyed it now. This wine is always enjoyable whenever you drink it.
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Lovely apricot fruit, with complementary line of minerality (smoke, petrol, but not at all offensive). Good finsih. Went very well with pork chops, not too sweet. May improve but definitely ready to go. A-
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Sweet, maybe just a hint too much for food, plenty of mandarin orange and orange marmalade, honey, sparkling acidity, telltale signs of age with petrol notes. A little bitter on opening but disappeared with air. Brown sugar and orange marmalade nose. Good drinking window.
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Bouchard 2006 (Washington DC): After 14 wines from Bouchard Pere & Fils, we were ready for two dessert wines and they were both good, although I preferred the Gunderloch Nackenheimer Rothenberg Riesling Auslese 2001 offered by Charles Stewart. Just lovely aspects of subtle petrol with an at once thick and refreshing palate texture and feel, a smooth delivery and a long finish.
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You can smell the bottle age on the nose: Slightly petrol notes, underlying peach with some honey and white flowers. Really lovely! Luscious and jucy in the mouth, but not too sweet at all. The acidity in still very obvious and isn't integrated perfectly yet. The finish keeps on and on and let your mouth watering for the next sip. This really great Auslese has portential for at least 15-20 years and will reach its peak in about 5-7 years. Absolutely delicious.
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Nose of white flowers, honeya and trace of petro.Much opener than two years ago. The acidity still needs at least 3 years to integrate. The sweetness seems to mell down with citrus layers and mouth watering long after taste.
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Italian Night at Wally's (Barrington, IL): Divine. With a seductive and effusive nose of sweet white fruits, minerals and smoke. Crisp and seemingly weightless. Sublime, sweet fruits and honey coat the palate. Persistent with a long, lingering and complex finish. (4+15+18+9=96)
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Pale yellow colour with green tinges. Aromas of honey, peach, lanolin, lychee, and a little petrol. Full-bodied, medium-sweet, with replays from nose and white flowers. Great acidity, but surprisingly evolved at this stage. Long finish, 50s, with honey and lychee notes.
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Pale yellow colour. Aromas of honey, lychee, lemon zest, white peach, spice, and tangerine. Medium-full bodied, medium sweetness, and good acidity. Excellent balance. Peaches, honey, spice, and white flowers on the palate. Long finish, ~45-50s. Lip-smacking good.
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The best wine at the 2003 WS Chicago Grand Tour in May 2003. Huge mineral laden nose. Pure multilayered wine with notes of apple, cream, slate and pear. A long finish that seemingly lasts forever. It was sweet and intense but possessed a lightness and elegance that left you wanting more. 96-97. Also tried the Gold Kap in June 2003 with similar notes and score.
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This was the first bottle I opened of this and it was just fantastic. The nose and palate were very big with minerals and spices flowing out of the glass. The finish was extremely long and really showed a very high ripeness level as well as an acidic component. This wine is going to be stunning in 10 years time ( though it was pretty incredible now as well ). Glad I have more of this as well as the Goldkap. I'd say this is one of the 3 best 2001 German experiences I've had yet, right up there with JJ Prum and JJ Christoffel.
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11/5/2023 - Guy Des Rosiers Likes this wine: 92 Points
Deep golden core. Amazing nose of pure peach and apricot. Medium-sweet, wonderfully rich and concentrated, yet built on a steely core of acidity that keeps everything in impeccable balance. The 2001s continue to impress. This is utterly beautiful.
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4/2/2023 - vide Likes this wine: 93 Points
A wonderful wine with a great balance of honey-lemon on fruit and nose, with a lovely clarity and purity with great soft acidity.
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2/12/2022 - Matt T wrote: 92 Points
Perhaps not the best stored bottle, but still alive and kicking with plenty of time left. Dark golden color with lots of acid to balance the fruit. Long finish. Really nice wine. Opened a bottle of the 2002 version of this wine from the same source about a week before that was completely oxidized, so this really showcases the strength of the 2001 vintage.
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6/27/2021 - dsamuel Likes this wine: 92 Points
Dark gold/amber in color
Explosive aromas of apricot/ banana/ tropical fruit - mango
Palate shows moderate RS but searing acidity which cuts through - the RS is probably way more than expected on tasting
Really drinking nicely at this point and appears eternal
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3/21/2021 - Order66 Likes this wine: 91 Points
This has scents of straight mango purée. Some notes of mandarin, honey, and pineapple but the assertive flavour note is ripe mangos. Quite juicy, lightly sweet with mellowed acidity. I’d say it’s drinking stellar now.
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5/29/2020 - dsamuel Likes this wine: 92 Points
No notes taken but drinking very well presently. Just a classic and well extracted Riesling. Moderate RS but enough to keep it perfectly balanced. Fantastic now but will last for years.
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3/6/2020 - jhbehrens Likes this wine: 93 Points
Beautiful depth, golden colour. Quite sweet and low alcohol so great as an aperitif. Showing very well right now.
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2/22/2020 - TXRhoneRanger wrote: 96 Points
All full throttle Riesling LH all the way. In a great spot. On day 2 even more layered with honeyed gold apricot. Sonnaofagun. I should have bought more. Delicious!
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1/16/2020 - MikeJK Likes this wine: 92 Points
Although the complexity, concentration and length are all there for an outstanding, fully developed Riesling... I think it could have used a touch more acid. Based on other reviews, I may have had an improperly stored bottle... purchased second hand.
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12/31/2019 - mhudes Likes this wine: 93 Points
New Year's Eve at cousin Mathew's. PnP Golden in color. Nose of tropical fruit and lemon zest. Honey, mango, apricot and perhaps kumquat on the palate. A little flint or mineral in the background. Long finish. Very nice!
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7/14/2018 - jhbehrens wrote: 92 Points
Dark gold colour, intense, complex aromas of citrus peel, honey and a little petrol on the nose. Full bodied due to its residual sugar balanced well by fresh acidity. Quite a lot of sulfite on the nose. Still in excellent condition with years ahead of it.
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3/17/2018 - Vino Me wrote: 98 Points
Opened with Emilio at dinner. 3rd time I have had this. Solid cork. Medium yellow color. This had very little petrol. Still vibrant and lively but very deep and developed. Loaded with apricot and tropical fruit notes. Minerally finish. Just an excellent wine and a very serious candidate very greatest Auslese made in the spectacular 2001 vintage. 98 points.
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5/7/2017 - WhatsSamSipping Likes this wine: 92 Points
Wonderful richness, texture, and grace. The sweetness had calmed down and all the fruits were shown with great clarity.
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12/20/2016 - fitzi wrote:
First of these I've opened in four years - mainly because I haven't been able to find them in the crawl space : ) This wine is testament to the capacity of wine to develop with cellar time, having transformed in character completely from a wine of pure finesse and needle-point acidity to a medium-bodied dessert wine in which the acidity appears as the backbone to a broad, well-buffered, texturally pillowy, with prominent but balanced sweetness and depth, as well as finesse. Quite a wine. Shows better after a day open on the counter, so no rush, imho.
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8/13/2016 - VDLT Wine Likes this wine:
At Rolling Spring Roll - it took som time to really emerge, showing primarily syrupy sugar. The fruit remains fresh and vivid. In time, it developed more interesting nuances, while a balancing petrol notes sustained. I suspect this could get better still as the sweetness gives way to mature expressions of the fruit and acidity. Quite a lovely drink now though.
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6/18/2016 - essconsults Likes this wine: 95 Points
The last of three bottles over the past 5 years and the best. One of the most interesting and, easily, one of the most delicious wines one can drink. The flavors just go on and on. With fabulous food at Cosme, NYC super upscale Haute-Mexican.
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10/2/2015 - DHJ1968 wrote:
Big and beautiful yet lithe and feline. Rippling and oh so fast. Utterly compelling and completely irresistible. Fresh fruit mashed by stony granite. Of truly freakish proportions and quixotic depths . Like Bo Jackson. The contradiction that is the essence of Riesling. Brilliant!
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3/20/2015 - sp4388 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Awesome peach and tropical fruit flavors, ripping acidity perfectly balancing the sweetness.
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3/29/2014 - AllRed wrote: 95 Points
Golden color. Gorgeous bouquet of apricot, stone and ripe peaches with a subtle petrol undertone. Like biting into a ripe, dripping peach, also apple, stone and melon. Terrific balancing acidity; long, lingering finish. Just wonderful stuff- thanks J3. It will no doubt hold for a long time, but I don't know that I could keep my hands off of it. It's in a great place and I see no reason to wait any longer.
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3/29/2014 - thelostverse wrote: 95 Points
Opened by J3 at Sun Wah. Second time I've had this in the last year. This is a beauty, but did morph a bit at the end of the evening in a concerning way. Pop and pour, with beautiful notes of tropical citrus and petrol. Everything in perfect balance at this point. However, by the end of the evening, I thought the sweetness became cloying and vastly detracted from the earlier experience. Perhaps this was a result of the lengthy evening and the bottle sitting at room temp for several hours. I did not detract from the score because there's no way this bottle would have lasted as long as it did if there weren't 14 other bottles open as well.
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3/29/2014 - Vino Me wrote: 96 Points
Jcubed brought this.Clear deep yellow color. Just a beautiful well balanced wine which is just as good as when I had this on release in 2003. More serious now than 11 years ago and a little deeper. Still tropical with notes of pineapple and crisp apple balanced by solid acidity. Glad I have 3 of these left. No hurry to drink these but they are ready if you want to. 96 points.
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8/20/2013 - drwine2001 wrote:
Full yellow. Broad, deep ripe peach and some sulfur which was slow to dissipate. Moderately sweet with a touch of honey. Rich and surprisingly loose for a 2001.
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5/29/2013 - thelostverse wrote: 95 Points
Opened by Dan at CWM dinner at Thai Cuisine. Beautiful petrol notes with citrus on the nose. Tropical citrus and spice on the palate with a long finish. Beautiful.
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3/12/2013 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light golden. Honeyed tangerine, a little fusel and some peach. Medium weight (definitely not Mosel lightness), rich, moderately sweet, but well circumscribed by acidity. Delicious Auslese approaching BA level, probably approaching peak drinking over the next several years.
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1/13/2013 - jasonh Likes this wine:
EWG @ Ración: Wow. This is just plain explosive. So much going on at every level. I loved to lemony waxy fruit. Great acidity. Hard not to love.
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1/13/2013 - peternelson wrote: 93 Points
Racion: medium gold color; herbal aspect with tes, honey, and melon-melon rind. Complex, off-dry, contemplative. Really lovely.
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1/13/2013 - gregg g wrote:
AP 0702. Lots of petrol on the nose with some grapefruit and slight skunk aromas. On the palate this just lovely. Polished, deep but light and lacy feel with nice complexity. Really focused and precise (I know German Riesling cliche but it holds true). Superb length and finish. I would wager, just beginning its lengthy plateau of drinking pleasure.
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9/23/2012 - fitzi wrote:
Golden-hued, modest tropical fruit on the nose, with 20 minutes of air, increasingly focused, precise, with acid sucking up the fruit and sugar to give knife-edge balance with some body, but still light and very fine. A good bottle for before or after the meal. Because of its great finesse, not sure I'd drink this with food. Maybe some thinly-sliced smoked salmon or trout on toast.
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4/23/2012 - John McCabe wrote: 94 Points
I don't normally have the patience to age a riesling like this, but was rewarded for holding out on this one. Beautiful dark golden color and showing a broad, expansive range of citrus and honey flavors together with a slight dark weight and dryness that made the wine all the more interesting and elegant.
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3/11/2012 - drwine2001 wrote:
Full yellow. Ripe peach and honey. Sweet. Lighter weight to start but picks up weight with air. Nice spiciness. Pretty much ready now. Not the most complex or bright Riesling ever, but very enjoyable for its depth and freshness of fruit.
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3/9/2012 - Mingmong wrote: 95 Points
Wonderful nose, yellow fruit perfume and kerosene and peachy. Very well balanced, rich dried pineapples and apricots, yet smooth supple sweetness undertones to complement the fruitiness. Fantastic riesling with just the right balance of sweetness and fruit.
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3/9/2012 - Paul S wrote: 94 Points
Wines of Strength and Elegance - Kelvin and Marlene's Combined Birthday Dinner (Absinthe, Bukit Pasoh): Wow. This rounded up an trio of absolutely superb white wines. It had wonderful nose, exploding with tropical notes of pineapples and apricots, sweet red apples and ripe peach, all drizzled with a little bit kerosene. Still young, but already so expressive. The palate showed off all that was good about the great 2001 vintage, with a wonderful, melting balance to its ripe, voluptuous flavours of pineapples and apricots, peach and sweet lemons, all melded into a beautiful whole. It did not quite have the tingly nervosity of a top Mosel, but there was a lemony, citrus balance to the whole mouthful that lent the wine a lively energy in spite of its rich, creamy power. Beautiful. The finish was pure Rheinhessen - a veritable fruit orchard just blooming in the back-palate along with wafts of sweet florals. A peach of an Auslese, absolutely delicious. It easily needs a decade more, but it was beautiful even now, especially when paired with a fatty pork belly dish.
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3/9/2012 - Alex H wrote: 88 Points
Beautiful sweet apples and pineapples. Weigthy and oomph wine. Lots of pineapples. More fruits compared to Mosel. Lots of tropical fruits and kero.
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1/1/2012 - suttonri wrote:
Mostly honey, botrytis, brown sugar flavors. Some pear, apricot, lime, and grapefruit too. Barely a hint of petrol. Drink or hold. Paired well with pork chops rubbed with Penzey's Galena Street mix.
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12/25/2011 - guitarguy wrote: 94 Points
Sweet, felt almost dessert-like. Still, it was a well-balanced, laser-sharp, orange marmalade mouthful. Petrol note not in evidence. Really nice.
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12/20/2011 - dbg wrote:
Identical to last bottle 8 months ago. Pale gold. Great nose, complex mix of flowers, tropical fruit, hints of petrol and earth. Light-medium weight, great fruit/acid/sweetness balance, medium-long finish, showing early signs of maturity, likely to get more complex over the next 5-10 years.
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9/30/2011 - dbkitc wrote: 95 Points
Glowing golden yellow. Soaring honey-crisp apple that shows some pristine botrytis. Very sweet, rich and powerful. Interestingly, there is a petrol aspect on the palate that I did not detect on the nose. The sweet fruit is heavenly to the finish which is zippy and perfectly balancing. A wine for after dinner or a fruit tart. Great juice. (95)
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9/25/2011 - WetRock wrote:
EWG does LQ @ SK (Starry Kitchen, Los Angeles): Herbal, celery like notes on the nose. Very light bodied for Auslese but well balanced. Nice lightly tart acids. In a good place already.
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4/26/2011 - dbg wrote:
Pale gold. Great nose, complex mix of flowers, tropical fruit, hints of petrol and earth. Light-medium weight, great fruit/acid/sweetness balance, medium-long finish, showing early signs of maturity, likely to get more complex over the next 5-10 years. Outstanding.
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7/16/2010 - kalissa wrote: 92 Points
This is really great, and is starting to develop some maturity, with the sweetness less cloying and some petrol aromas. This can age for a significantly longer time but is excellent now. When it was young it had more tropical fruit aromas but now has developed more mineral and earthy aromas and flavours. I enjoyed it young and and enjoyed it now. This wine is always enjoyable whenever you drink it.
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7/10/2010 - gymp wrote:
Lovely apricot fruit, with complementary line of minerality (smoke, petrol, but not at all offensive). Good finsih. Went very well with pork chops, not too sweet. May improve but definitely ready to go. A-
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5/16/2010 - guitarguy wrote: 92 Points
Sweet, maybe just a hint too much for food, plenty of mandarin orange and orange marmalade, honey, sparkling acidity, telltale signs of age with petrol notes. A little bitter on opening but disappeared with air. Brown sugar and orange marmalade nose. Good drinking window.
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12/8/2009 - PanosKakaviatos Likes this wine:
Bouchard 2006 (Washington DC): After 14 wines from Bouchard Pere & Fils, we were ready for two dessert wines and they were both good, although I preferred the Gunderloch Nackenheimer Rothenberg Riesling Auslese 2001 offered by Charles Stewart. Just lovely aspects of subtle petrol with an at once thick and refreshing palate texture and feel, a smooth delivery and a long finish.
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7/3/2009 - FMG wrote:
A Night at Home with the Lads ('83 Montille Pezerolles) (Notting Hill): orange/custard/hint of petrol/not Mosel/passion fruit/mature peach/yellow fruit, extremely mature/surprisingly/definitely 2ndary/a bit light in mid palate. **/Rebuy Maybe
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1/14/2009 - Medo wrote: 93 Points
You can smell the bottle age on the nose: Slightly petrol notes, underlying peach with some honey and white flowers. Really lovely! Luscious and jucy in the mouth, but not too sweet at all. The acidity in still very obvious and isn't integrated perfectly yet. The finish keeps on and on and let your mouth watering for the next sip. This really great Auslese has portential for at least 15-20 years and will reach its peak in about 5-7 years. Absolutely delicious.
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1/2/2009 - SH Wu wrote: 94 Points
Nose of white flowers, honeya and trace of petro.Much opener than two years ago. The acidity still needs at least 3 years to integrate. The sweetness seems to mell down with citrus layers and mouth watering long after taste.
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3/4/2007 - Pacherant wrote: 91 Points
Sweet, pretty and perfectly balanced. More bottle age should bring out more distinct flavors, but this is a lovely apperitif.
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2/17/2007 - WDK wrote: 96 Points
This wine if fabulous. Clean, crisp with well defined fruit and mineral character support an unctuos texture that makes this wine sing in your mouth.
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2/15/2007 - Nanda wrote:
Italian Night at Wally's (Barrington, IL): Divine. With a seductive and effusive nose of sweet white fruits, minerals and smoke. Crisp and seemingly weightless. Sublime, sweet fruits and honey coat the palate. Persistent with a long, lingering and complex finish. (4+15+18+9=96)
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2/11/2006 - Blue Oval wrote:
Closed for business.
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7/24/2005 - futronic wrote: 93 Points
Pale yellow colour with green tinges. Aromas of honey, peach, lanolin, lychee, and a little petrol. Full-bodied, medium-sweet, with replays from nose and white flowers. Great acidity, but surprisingly evolved at this stage. Long finish, 50s, with honey and lychee notes.
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8/5/2004 - futronic wrote: 94 Points
Pale yellow colour. Aromas of honey, lychee, lemon zest, white peach, spice, and tangerine. Medium-full bodied, medium sweetness, and good acidity. Excellent balance. Peaches, honey, spice, and white flowers on the palate. Long finish, ~45-50s. Lip-smacking good.
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11/4/2003 - Double-A Likes this wine: 95 Points
Aromatic, spiced pineapple, apple, smoke, mineral and wax nose. Rich and intense yet vibrant in the mouth. Med-sweet, long, juicy finish.
5/5
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5/13/2003 - Vino Me wrote: 96 Points
The best wine at the 2003 WS Chicago Grand Tour in May 2003. Huge mineral laden nose. Pure multilayered wine with notes of apple, cream, slate and pear. A long finish that seemingly lasts forever. It was sweet and intense but possessed a lightness and elegance that left you wanting more. 96-97. Also tried the Gold Kap in June 2003 with similar notes and score.
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4/13/2003 - JeffGMorris wrote:
This was the first bottle I opened of this and it was just fantastic. The nose and palate were very big with minerals and spices flowing out of the glass. The finish was extremely long and really showed a very high ripeness level as well as an acidic component. This wine is going to be stunning in 10 years time ( though it was pretty incredible now as well ). Glad I have more of this as well as the Goldkap. I'd say this is one of the 3 best 2001 German experiences I've had yet, right up there with JJ Prum and JJ Christoffel.
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