2019 Weingut Max Ferd. Richter Veldenzer Elisenberg Riesling Spätlese

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 92.8 points

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  1/29/2024 - Winiac wrote: 92 Points

  Balanced, but acid minus. Flavors are not very focused, but overall, very drinkable and pleasant.

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  10/16/2022 - JJKinch wrote: 92 Points

  Nice tropical fruit (pineapple, slight mango), good citrus- lime, nice honey- good lingering sweetness, nice floral, good acidity. Bright. Lingering finish. Really enjoyable.

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  9/5/2022 - FiggySmalls wrote:

  on pnp, it's very aromatic and open. plenty rs and richness, but enough acid that it drinks like a mildly-balanced dessert wine.
  
  it definitely mirrors the rich "pineapple wine" Guillermo accurately describes. I'm in the "drink up now while it has some youthful perk" camp, though.
  
  I am unsure what aging would do for this already thick and flabby pour,

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  7/12/2022 - Double-A Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Aromatic, waxy mineral, ripe apple, and nectarine nose. Medium-sweet palate with juicy acidity; light bodied with a long, lively finish. Delightful with great potential; still very primary and youthful.
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  11/14/2021 - guillermo- Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Night two (because of course I saved some) with more time to sit and calmly think while tasting. Creamy on the palate with some far away hints of pickled ginger and pure fresh sugarcane, but otherwise this is all about pineapple, pineapple, pineapple on both the nose and palate.
  
  I can see why Brian would mention oregano because there’s something of that on the finish, but it’s more a remembrance than a hint for me. And I can see why David mentioned candied lemon, but it’s more pickled ginger and sugarcane to me. This isn’t an exact science.
  
  If you told someone who has never had pradikat rieslings that this is a pineapple wine from the Caribbean they would believe you and say it’s delicious. (Having tasted fermented pineapple myself, I’m fairly sure that’s not what pineapple wine would taste like because it would be way more acidic and sour but that’s not really the point.)
  
  Take my rating as an invitation to buy this wine for aging, but don’t make the mistake I did of having it now.

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