2001 Weingut Josef Jamek Riesling Smaragd Klaus

Community Tasting Notes (37) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  7/19/2021 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A good amount of petrol on the nose, along with expressive notes of peach and stone fruit. Nice acidity with more stone fruit, lemon, and apricot. Long finish. Probably in a perfect place right now with lots of fruit left and nice acidity that keeps it fresh.

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  7/19/2021 - alanr wrote: 95 Points

  Might be my last bottle, possibly one left, which is sad. Been enjoying this wine every couple of years since its glorious release. This bottle has aged very gracefully, with enticing savory petrol aromas, then burnishing its deep, rich, savory fruit to a wonderful middle aged peak, so much intensity of flavor, still strong acidity, showing a bit saline through the finish, which turns mouthwateringly tart and mineral. A fantastically complex wine at the peak of its power.

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  6/6/2016 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I was dodging the blood spatters so I couldn't fully concentrate on this, but it was similar to previous bottles. Big gold nose of chicken broth, saline, bitter peach pit, sharp minerals and flint, maybe a bit of nut. Quite wicked on the palate - salty, brothy and minerals. More austere than some of the previous showings, but still classic Austrian Smaragd, albeit on the big-boned side. I liked it this time around but didn't love it as much as other times. Probably 16/20.

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  6/6/2016 - salil wrote: 93 Points

  What's better than watching a chainsaw-wielding Bruce Campbell take on zombies? Watching Ash v. the Evil Dead with a bottle of the '01 Jamek Klaus. This is its usual fantastic self - in such a great place right now with youthful fruit, maturing smoky and brassy flavours, herbs, and vivid stony minerality all coming together seamlessly. The palate is fantastic - more polished than Ash's rosewood hand, and showing as much cut as that chainsaw. Groovy.

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  3/18/2016 - BradKNYC wrote:

  TN: Terrific wines (Loire, Germany, Austria, Alsace & Rioja) as Jeff & Dena Morris return to NYC. (Royal Seafood, NYC): A powerful, muscular wine that shows a glycerol feel to it while being dry. There's a wonderful saline character that's woven into the layers of yellow and orchard fruit and stony profile. It shows great depth, is expansive across the palate and has a long dry finish that picks up some grapefruit notes. Clicking on all cylinders right now. Solid A-.

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