2013 Melsheimer Riesling Lentum

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 86.7 points

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  9/12/2020 - vulgar little monkey wrote: 92 Points

  Holy crap! What in the actual fuck is this? Mineral and fruitless on entry, saline herbal notes. Maybe kelp? There is some citrus rind and stones. Finally, some fruit peaks out, but it doesn't really matter. This is wine in a different idiom. I've never had this before but it is something I will seek out in the future. This is uncompromising but not uninviting or unyielding. As long as you are willing to meet the wine halfway it is super complex and interesting. I love wines like this. A bit of google says that this is the fever dream of a rogue winemaker which spent 3 years fermenting and was bottled sometime in late 2017. I'm not sure it would be something we'd drink all the time, but I'll definitely follow these wines.

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  5/21/2019 - Abigailkb Likes this wine: 88 Points

  White flowers nose, thin delicate lemon and grapefruity palate. Dry dry dry.

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  4/27/2019 - golfkompis Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Though this wine was held 48 months in oak it was fresh and fruity with hints of lemon and grape. A very nice wine and I'm glad there is another bottle in the cellar.

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  4/8/2019 - mkribar Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Not sure what wine the previous poster was drinking. Weird for sure, but interesting. Pineapple and guava on the nose. Medium acid. Surprisingly woody on the palate for a riesling, but makes sense given this wine’s backstory (48 months in fodor).
  
  Finish is long and fruity. Less austere than I was expecting. Interesting and enjoyable.

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  1/27/2017 - forceberry wrote: 75 Points

  Luminous, pale and rather neutral lime green color. Very lean, savory and un-fruity nose with aromas of chalk powder, some sawdust and a hint of moldy lemon. Feels like there's either some unclean fruit here or then the nose is just very weird for some other reason. The wine is light-bodied, fresh and steely on the palate with quite delicate and somewhat austere flavors of tart green apples, lemon, some mineral water, a little bit of wet stones and a hint of incisive minerality. The finish is refreshing, taut and somewhat neutral with medium-long flavors of steely minerality, some lemony citrus fruits and a hint of apple peel bitterness.
  
  A rather austere and aggressive Riesling with very little fruit, no richness to speak of and slightly off-putting, perhaps a bit unclean nose. Not really a wine to impress me.

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