2017 Dr. Loosen Ürziger Würzgarten Riesling Kabinett

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 88.6 points

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  1/5/2020 - Heynetty wrote:

  WSET Diploma - Class Two - Grape Experience; 1/4/2020-1/5/2020; 1/4/2020-1/5/2020 (San Francisco Holiday Inn Golden Gateway): Tasted Open
  
  A: Pale lemon
  N: Medium (+) nose [instructor says pronounced]. Green apple, lemon, peach, honeysuckle, orange preserves [instructor adds wet stone and jasmine]
  P:Medium sweet, high acid, low alcohol, pronounced intensity, full body [instructor says medium], medium (+) finish.
  C: Well balanced RS/fruit concentration vs acid. Good length and excellent intensity with very good typcity. Very good quality wine but better examples might have more hallmarks of riesling (petrol, etc) and have greater length on the finish.
  Fruit concentration, lots of primaries to convert to complex tertiaries and acid make this suitable for ageing.

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  10/20/2019 - Stanrocks wrote: 88 Points

  Flowers, muscat, exotic, moscato d’asti like without the bubbles, nice fruit on the palate, with good gaz that helps quite the balance :) quite elegant and sweet... Not too much our style of wines but easy drinker I think.

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  4/13/2019 - forceberry wrote: 85 Points

  8% alcohol. Tasted blind among 46 other 2017 Riesling Kabinetts in Kabinett Cup 2017.
  
  Neutral, almost completely colorless whitish-green color. Youthful, sharp and somewhat primary nose with aromas of ripe white peach, some juicy pear, a little bit of sappy greenness, light beeswaxy tones and a hint of tart key lime. The wine is youthful, medium-to-moderately full-bodied on the palate with quite high-strung overall feel. The wine is crisp and somewhat taut on the palate with slightly reticent medium-dry flavors of tart lemony citrus fruits, some unripe apple, a little bit of sappy herbal greenness, light spicy mineral tones and a quite pronounced streak of stony mineral bitterness. The wine is quite high in acidity - perhaps even higher than it feels like, but the sweetness and acidity just offset each other here. The finish is quite long, somewhat lean and quite bitter with flavors of apple peel, some grapefuirt zest, a little bit of sappy herbal greenness and a hint of stony mineral spice.
  
  A tasty but also somewhat austere Kabinett that shows good intensity of fruit in the nose, but relatively little of anything on the palate - apart from the typical spicy minerality of Würzgarten. I enjoyed the crisp, racy acidity here, but the overall feel was rather one-dimensional and the wine was left for wanting in the fruit department. Overall the wine feels just too young and tightly-wound with rather lean overall character. I found the wine very promising, but still quite simple and straightforward at the moment and rated it accordingly; on the other hand, many of the judges found the wine so impressive for its future aging potential that they rated the wine so. It scored a total of 42 points from the 12 judges, making it finish in 6th place out of 46 wines.

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  1/9/2019 - GL Rhone wrote: 91 Points

  Light, unobtrusive nose, hints of creamed peach, light spices and coconut. Lively acidity on palate balancing a delicate creamy textured sweetness, all very filigree and in harmony, nice stony finish. Seems to take on more elegance and weightlessness with time. Upgrading this based on day 2: nose goes more savoury, with spices and wet slate. Palate is crackling with acidity, like crunching into a sweet green apple!

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  8/18/2018 - Crispin wrote: 89 Points

  Great appetiser. Little bit of zing. Nice lemony fruit. Pretty long.

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