2006 Nikolaihof Riesling Federspiel Vom Stein, abgefüllt 2014

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  8/13/2018 - tastark Likes this wine:

  What an awesome wine! Contrary to other notes, I found the wood influence to be subtle and overpowered by the chalk and petrol present in this wine. Outstanding depth. This is not a fruit-driven Riesling. Instead, it's got bracing acidity and a ton if "minerality." Not for the feint of heart. A thinker's wine.

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  6/25/2016 - gotfunk wrote:

  Well-made and certainly enjoyable with a chicken, bacon and avocado salad, but all traces of riesling character have been obliterated by the oak.

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  5/27/2016 - Charlie Pendejo Does not like this wine:

  Had one of these a few weeks ago. Didn't take notes but for my tastes it seemed like a pretty high quality Austrian Riesling underneath a heap of sawdusty oak that did it no favors whatsoever. I won't go so far as to say I want no oak in any of my whites, per Soteriologist - depends on the white as well as the effects and degree of oak - but especially for a delicate Federspiel made from transparent, refined Riesling... too much for me. I'd gladly trade my other bottle.

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  6/10/2015 - Soteriologist wrote: 92 Points

  Uploaded a pic of the glass, but it is clearer, more shiny and a bit deeper in reality, with a distinct greenish touch.
  
  Note 6/16/2015
  I am having this last glass of this my second and last bottle almost a week after opening the bottle, and it is still as good as on day 1. Phenomenal quality and hence a quasi-objective 92 once more. Yet I am also gradually finding out that I am not such a great fan of oaked whites. In the future I want my Riesling without oak.

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  10/7/2014 - Soteriologist Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This is not the same wine as this one:
  
  The 2007 bottling of the 2006 Nikolaihof Riesling Federspiel Vom Stein
  
  the difference being that this one has spent over 7 years in oak (*) and was bottled only in April 2014
  
  as verified on the phone with Mrs. Saahs from Nikolaihof two days ago. The ratings on that other wine - which is the 2007 bottling of the otherwise same wine - are decidedly too low for this product of long barrel maturation.
  
  Glass: intense but still light golden color with a little tilt towards yellowish green.
  
  Nose: complex. Yes, there is a rather elegant and unobtrusive base line of dried banana with some lemon/lychee (thus far recognizably Riesling), yes there is vanilla and also spice, that is a bit of leather or even a hint of cigar box (here you can tell it's been in oak), white pepper (?), or even a faint hint of barnyard (this part is more discreet on day 3). Both nose and palate give the impression of a hybrid between a Riesling and a Pinot Noir - which I find pretty interesting.
  
  Palate: complex, dry and elegant. Beautiful balance between purely fruit induced sweetness (something like lemon and a bit of unripe pear and some raspberry) and an unobtrusive and pleasant acidity softened by oak. Great minerality in the length which keeps the root of the tongue busy for what must be a minute or more, indicating potential for years to come. This tastes like it has some serious backbone. I could probably let this bottle stand open for days and it would only improve.
  
  This is all about balance, elegance, smoothness, subtlety and unobtrusiveness (very friendly, like the Saahs) and potential.
  
  Perhaps the rating includes 1 extra point for being:
  The healthiest wine in the world
  otherwise a 91.
  
  Buy while you can ! They tell me they have decided to sell this at low cost in relation to its value because they had a very good harvest this year, need space and wanted to educate people in wine quality. (*) They are selling it at 16.30 €, the same price at which they sell the 2013 which has spent only 6 months in the barrel. An incredible value !

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