2019 Jean Biecher Riesling Sommerberg

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  3/25/2023 - caspernick Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Poured at a blind tasting- was the white of the night. Racy with great acidity and fruit. Tertiary development just starting. Delicious with lots of life left.

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  11/11/2022 - erikdahlin Likes this wine:

  Pear and green apple aroma with a light gold color. This was a rich wine, really delightful and paired well with chicken tikka masala, as well as with a seared pork chop.

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  10/13/2022 - sfwinelover1 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  One off ($19.99) from online wine clearinghouse #1 about a year ago. On the nose and palate, potent notes of sweet peach, pineapple, lime zest, petrol, rocky minerality, slate, jasmine, honeysuckle, apples, pears and lychees. Light gold, medium bodied, light to medium legs. Deceptively vibrant acidity, no heat. VG+ complexity, VG persistence and intensity. Well, this is the second—count it—riesling I’ve reviewed on CT, and there’s every reason to give my opinion about as much credence as you would my opinion of a translation of Lao Tzu from the original Chinese to Russian. But if you’re still with me after that disclaimer, this wine was downright rousing, with powerful sweet, savory and tart notes working with really impressive fruit and acidity to create an almost shockingly memorable, laser focused pour at its price point. This was lovely on its own—a strong step up in that regard over Riesling #1, the Gustavo Lorenz reviewed 7/21–but it downright knocked my socks off with seafood stir fry one night and sushi a second (I’ve always thought of the Spottswoode SB as the gold standard as a paring for that treat, but this was right there, if not surpassing that). The youthful energy of this wine just radiates, yet it sang out of the bottle, and has continued strong over 3 nights. I know those more knowledgeable than I believe this varietal hits its apex with some bottle age, but, even with its racy crispness, how much better can this get? The only downside is that I bought just one bottle; damn. Like the recent Felipe Saitti, a powerful argument that diverse (geographically, vinologically, pricewise, etc.) quaffs can be—from sfwl’s perspective, should be—a part of every wine lover’s oeuvre. Note to self: if I’m going to disregard the Palo Alto Spa & Medical Clinic’s dietary advice and eat uncooked sea creatures, I could do a lot worse than finding rieslings, certainly this Riesling, to pair it with. Not just a really good $20 wine, but a really good wine, full stop. 93-94+

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  10/3/2022 - CondorKhan wrote: 90 Points

  Still very young, still delicious, not a lot of change since last year.
  
  If anything, compared to the notes I wrote last year I think I'd put more emphasis on the minerality aspect, but that might be a consequence of the food pairing.

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  10/2/2022 - BrunelloBob wrote: 89 Points

  Nice Chinese food pairing

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