2003 Hessische Staatsweingüter Kloster Eberbach Steinberger Riesling

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  3/24/2007 - sweetstuff wrote: 92 Points

  TN:2003 Steinberger Riesling Kabinett; The Hessisches Staatsweingüter at Kloster Eberbach; AP 3 3050 099 04; 10.5 pabv;$17 (sale price)/750 ml at Arrow Wines; Kettering, OH; Valckenberg.
  
  Grown inside the great walled Clos in perhaps one of Germany's most impressive vineyards, the Allenbesitz (wholly owned) Ortsteil (having a name unto inself and needing no town location to identifiy it), of the great State Domain of the Rheingau, now making wines worthy of its noble antecedents after decades of mediocrity, thank you very much.
  
  A wine of the palest green, and lissome in texture.
  
  Showing a touch of fine cold cream, with a bit of leather and quinine medicinality, and what is probably the most typical terroir-note for me of a good Steinberger--burnt brick.
  
  Belying its rather high alcohol for type, one of the most delicate of the Kabinetts, almost a Rembrandt miniature etching of a wine. The presence of a bit of fructose enhances the mintiness of the ripe lime skin-tones, overlain with a more of that subtly bittle quinine-like aroma. More akin to a courage-bolstering Hungarian wine than anything so fine should ever be. The finish tantalizingly plays across the suface of the tongue with a hint of that appetizing bitterness. A very great wine for type; perhaps capable of almost infinite aging potential despite its extreme finesse. Sufficient ripe acid to guarantee this. 92/100.
  
  A great example of the best of the martial possibilites of a great Rheinriesling

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