2012 Von Schubert Maximin Grünhäuser Abtsberg Riesling Kabinett

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 89.8 points

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  11/20/2023 - melvinyeowq wrote: 93 Points

  Under screwcap. More reductive than the bottle with cork closure from a month ago, but similar impressions otherwise. Superb freshness for an 11 year old wine, and a reminder to age your Kabinetts.

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  10/21/2023 - melvinyeowq wrote: 93 Points

  Cork closure (bought two, the other bottle I received was screwcap). Opened a couple hours ahead of dinner since the previous notes mentioned reductiveness but no sign of it here. So vibrant for an 11 year old wine, but with some secondary development and complexity. Steely citrus fruit complemented with an appealing, lush mouthfeel. Seamless and integrated, this is drinking superbly now. Haven't opened a Riesling for a while and always wonder why I don't open more when I finish a bottle.

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  3/27/2023 - cweiss Likes this wine:

  With T&M at Noah's Kitchen lunch. Quite good. The reduction is now all gone. Modern Kab sweetness with good balance and plenty of fruit. Nice now and will evolve well too.

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  12/19/2022 - Rieslingfan wrote:

  When this was first released it was unbearably reduced. It smelled like a tire fire. I was very concerned that it would be forever undrinkable. Five years after the vintage it had started to turn a corner, shedding some of that reductive funk with significant help from a lot of air. Fast forward to 2022, ten years post vintage, and the wine was wide open and fresh from the moment the cap was unscrewed. No decanting necessary to unleash the vibrant green apple and white peach fruit. It’s actually both extremely youthful and very rich, feeling more like a solid Spätlese than anything resembling Kabinett. All that said it’s wonderful that the reductive character this showed in youth is gone, and not it’s a question of how long it will take for this to start developing bottle-aged complexity, and shed some youthful fat.

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  6/12/2020 - cweiss Likes this wine:

  Not much different from 11/2017 bottle. Mildly reductive just at first.
  A joy to drink now, a good bet to drink later.

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