1990 Fürst Löwenstein Riesling Auslese Weißsilber trocken

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  8/22/2015 - SteveG wrote: 93 Points

  Deep overripe peach. Opened 8 hours, intense and tropical, botrytized, barely sweet entry, mirrored with barely bitter exit. Overall presents like a concentrated and very tart Condrieu. Light sediment in the last ounce. Enjoyed with spicy lobster salad but probably better as dessert.

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  9/20/2014 - SteveG wrote: 92 Points

  Evidently from a period when the estate was run by Schloss Vollrads. Lightly orange 18K gold. Yet another old white wine which really needed some airtime to shine. The first day it was a little cloudy, with no nose and not much palate except citrus tart.
  
  A day later, nice nose of pineapple, overripe tart peach, honey, and flower buds. The palate is full and has a soft texture, tropical and honeyed, very ripe but almost vanishingly sweet, and bracingly mouthwatering. The finish is a powerful extension of the palate, more mineral and just barely short of too tart. A fascinating style, old-fashioned, very ripe riesling vinified to near-dryness and very mature. I don't have enough experience with contemporary dry German wines to compare.

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