1992 Müller-Catoir Mußbacher Eselshaut Rieslaner Auslese

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  4/2/2024 - SpenceP wrote: 93 Points

  Pineapple, apricot, blueberries and herbs, brown sugar, minerals, candied orange peel, all balanced by a vivid acidity and followed by an exceptionally long aftertaste that grows in intensity before it starts to fade. Really quite nice. [Tasted over several hours from the Jancis Robinson glass.] This is now medium-brown, which makes me think it would probably be a good idea to finish any bottles in your cellar over the next few years. (After 48 hours stoppered and kept cool but not otherwise preserved, the "blueberries and herbs" component has vanished, but the wine is otherwise very much the same, as is the score.)

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  11/6/2023 - SpenceP wrote: 93 Points

  The cork was worryingly dry and crumbly-- this definitely required the Durand opener. Medium brown. The wine was at its best after about half an hour in the glass, but the difference was small. Vivid poached apricots, ripe peaches, minerals, touches of orange, lemon, flowers, spices, brown sugar, and quince, followed by a beautiful and extremely long honeyed aftertaste. Medium-sweet, nicely balanced by acidity. Still very enjoyable, but clearly in decline--an aging aristocrat. My (fallible) guess here is that the problem was the cork, not the underlying wine, so if you have bottles with corks that are in better shape, I'd expect those bottles to be not just in better shape but also absolutely better. But if this cork was typical, I'd suggest drinking these as soon as is convenient. [Tasted over 2 hours from the Jancis Robinson glass.]

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  5/14/2015 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:

  Advanced color, with plenty of interesting things that come with age showing on the nose, though for my palate, just too sweet - without enough supporting/lifting acidity. Glad to have tried it, and went especially well with Bistro Ralph's crème brûlée.
  
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  4/7/2012 - mdefreitas wrote: 89 Points

  Various Wines @ Salil's (Vernon, CT): The base flavors here are appealing: honey, orange peel, earl grey tea... but the structure is slightly lacking. Some butterscotch creeps in. A bit watery on the finish. I would opt to drink this sooner rather than later.

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  4/7/2012 - salil wrote: 87 Points

  Apricots, honey, spices and a dried orange peel element that suggests this is getting a little long in the tooth. It's quite sweet, tasty but lacking the cut, complexity and energy that young Rieslaner has.

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