2015 Weingut Günther Steinmetz Dhroner Hofberg Riesling

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  4/26/2023 - Ingmars Likes this wine:

  Nearing 12 months since my first note. Mid yellow with golden flecks, then full yellow with golden flecks at 1.5 hours. A tired nose of barley sugar suggests the wine is on downward slope. The dry-style palate is soft, showing some older citrus fruits and though concentrated, uninteresting. Short on living fruit and overly acidic at the tail. Hoping this is a defective bottle. Merely quite good. Last glass better, good. Decant next bottle, though not optimistic about such a measure helping.
  
  On the following evening another bottle is withdrawn from the cellar and decanted. I very much doubt know if it helped, because the colour from this bottle is a bright medium to fullish yellow, with no trace of gold. The nose is slightly pungent orange and lemon, with some floral notes and not the smallest hint of barley sugar. It's already immediately clear that yesterday's bottle was a tired example. Nutty, a little smokey and some spicy pineapple show later to make for a lovely nose. This is much more like it was back in 05.2022, with the concentrated, medium bodied palate reminding me, stylistically at least, of Georg Breuer's Rauenthal village riesling. Quite lovely fruit sweetness here on a pungent yellow fruit background. With less than a half remaining in a half bottle, this had not deteriorated one bit the next day. Mostly very good plus, but at times reaching fine.

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  5/12/2022 - Ingmars wrote:

  I had posted a private note in CT at some point because I was not confident about future development, but failed to fix the date. Whenever that was, I can't now recall making that specific note, but I do recollect being unsure about the wine, which was had over two days: "Yellow. Day 1 - tinned yellow peach plus custard. Day 2 - candied fruit. Palate is extracted, but there is excessive bitterness from the skin contact and insufficient fruit sweetness to compensate. Merely good." Well, it's a heck of a lot better than that, now! Mid-yellow. Not for the first time has this producer's dry-styled riesling taken me to the Rheingau, with a pungent pineapple note. After about 40 minutes I get slate, which takes me to where I should be (unless they are reductive characters, which is highly possible), but that pungent pineapple resurfaces and again I'm thinking the Rhine. Medium body, concentrated and pungent yellow fruit, but with a lovely sweetness starting at the middle and sustained until the dry finish. Drinking really well and very good plus. I'm sure that it will stay at this level at least until it's a decade old.

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