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• 2016 Rhys Chardonnay Alpine Vineyard

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  4/23/2024 - alanr Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Medium golden color, has a lovely nose of crushed fruit, touch of red apple; nice medium intensity on the palate, has the typical touch of Alpine “honey”, not in a sweet way, but in its richness. If only there was a bit more salinity, but that’s not a trait I find as much in the Rhys Chards.

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• 2005 Trimbach Riesling Cuvée Frédéric Emile

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  4/22/2024 - alanr Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Moderately golden color, light on the nose with some hints of savory fruit; don’t remember if I had this closer to release, now it’s rounded out a bit from what was surely a more austere, steely profile, medium depth, starts out slowly, then the intensity builds slightly before turning more mineral, but with a nice dash of more lush fruit. Still a rock head wine, though softened considerably, and drinking beautifully at almost 20 years.

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• 2002 Schloss Gobelsburg Riesling Alte Reben

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  4/21/2024 - alanr Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Fairly amount of golden copper color, nose is somewhat tame, no obvious petrol, more along the lines of rose petal, quite attractive but hard to describe; the palate is richly flavored, with some viscosity and weight, some light umami savory, has a sense of sweetness from bottle age, very nicely balanced. A delicious, lightly complex wine at or maybe past its peak, lush and voluptuous.

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