2020 Carl Loewen Riesling 1896

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 95 points

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  3/8/2024 - bigpapasquid Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Pinneaple; deep suave minerality. Some spice that isn't cardamom but made me think of cardamom...
  
  Mysterious, fun, serious. Thank god for wines with personality.

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  4/23/2023 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 95 Points

  AP 13 21. Ungrafted vines planted in 1896 in the Longuicher Maximin Herrenberg, basket press, ambient yeasts, aged in Fuder, 12.5% ABV. Opened 24 hours in advance. Toute en délicatesse, fragrant and filigree, silky-smooth with "dienende Restsüsse" (11 gr/l), complete and complex flavour profile, deep minerality, bitters need more time to integrate. Dreamy elegance, marvellous "Trinkfluss". Drink from 2025. Even better after 24 hours in the fridge. Good future.

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  2/9/2022 - rcb25 Likes this wine:

  Light and delicate. On entry supple and welcome. Gentle, like a warm hand softly caressing you. Slightly off-dry. Elegant, ethereal. Beautiful. Like a Lorraine Loots painting; soft, subtle, but filled with nuance and filigreed detail. Powdered slate and floral notes are then taken over by pear, stone fruit, exotic spices, amchur, shiso, kafir lime leaves, calamansi. A melodic and unfailingly resonant riesling. On first sip, I was scurrying to get more. Drinking beautifully now, but best staring in 3-5 years. AP 13 21
  
  ABV: 12.5%
  Closure: natural cork
  Decant:1h
  Stem: Grassl Liberte
  Extra info: 11g/L of RS. from very old ungrafted vines in Longuicher Maximiner Herrenberg planted in 1896; a plot Karl-Josef purchased from Schmitt-Wagner. Devonian slate with a band of red iron and volcanic red soil.

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