Dinner with Friends (Juno - Chicago IL): Rich and unctuous, perhaps not necessarily what I was expecting tonight. Ripe stone fruit mostly coming through with spice that made me think this a blend vs pure Riesling. Slightly lacking in structure at this point, it's clearly time to drink up. Bottle purchased at release and store perfectly since.
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Light golden. Broad, peach scents and flavors, some spice and finishing soil. Weighty but it lacks some tension due to lower acidity. Will never be an alltime great, but very happy to drink my last bottle now.
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Dinner with 1985 Focus (Nopa Restaurant, San Francisco): Medium yellow. Some petrol at first that faded. Then rich, dry peach and excellent acidity. Powerful. Alone, this probably would have seemed great, but after the wonderful Deutz Champagne, it fell flat, feeling oily and fat. A case in point of context, serving order and palate conditioning.
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Very pleasant with elegant, restrained peach and citrus fruit flavours accented by floral and developed creamy elements; rich though quite precise and well balanced by bright acids.
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2000 Weingut Nigl Senftenberg-Kremstal Riesling Privat , alc 15.5%, $50...fairly dark yellow color...nose is of honeysuckle blossoms...at a great place in it's evolution...still nervy and crisp but starting to show some complexity of fruit with some Asian spice notes
Great with Murgh Saag and Curried Lentils
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5/12/2015 - Burgundy Al wrote: 90 Points
Dinner with Friends (Juno - Chicago IL): Rich and unctuous, perhaps not necessarily what I was expecting tonight. Ripe stone fruit mostly coming through with spice that made me think this a blend vs pure Riesling. Slightly lacking in structure at this point, it's clearly time to drink up. Bottle purchased at release and store perfectly since.
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4/1/2013 - drwine2001 wrote:
Light golden. Broad, peach scents and flavors, some spice and finishing soil. Weighty but it lacks some tension due to lower acidity. Will never be an alltime great, but very happy to drink my last bottle now.
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5/16/2012 - drwine2001 wrote:
Dinner with 1985 Focus (Nopa Restaurant, San Francisco): Medium yellow. Some petrol at first that faded. Then rich, dry peach and excellent acidity. Powerful. Alone, this probably would have seemed great, but after the wonderful Deutz Champagne, it fell flat, feeling oily and fat. A case in point of context, serving order and palate conditioning.
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5/19/2011 - salil wrote: 90 Points
Very pleasant with elegant, restrained peach and citrus fruit flavours accented by floral and developed creamy elements; rich though quite precise and well balanced by bright acids.
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5/9/2011 - ssouth wrote: 94 Points
2000 Weingut Nigl Senftenberg-Kremstal Riesling Privat , alc 15.5%, $50...fairly dark yellow color...nose is of honeysuckle blossoms...at a great place in it's evolution...still nervy and crisp but starting to show some complexity of fruit with some Asian spice notes
Great with Murgh Saag and Curried Lentils
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8/25/2009 - christyler wrote: 90 Points
*Deep* yellow color. Grainy, interesting, and amazing. Not too much minerality. Very delicious, needs food.
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1/22/2008 - JeffGMorris wrote:
Open That Bottle Night at St Jacques. From magnum. Closed tight but showing little to no acidic structure. Is this an off bottle? NR
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