2020 Eva Fricke Riesling Kiedrich trocken

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  4/16/2022 - jrick wrote: 90 Points

  A very nice, very fruit forward riesling. Yellow and green apples, lemon fudge, passion fruit, lime, slate. I think it is a little sweeter than I expected and the residual sugar is not completely ”eaten” by the acidity, where the wine is a tiny bit sticky and would do better with food that has a bit of chili rather than the salmon and roe-sauce I had with it. Not completely my style of riesling but really a very good one. Maybe should have waited a year or two for it to settle.

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  3/4/2022 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Frau Fricke Rides Again!
  
  Under screw cap rather than the eccentric cork. Note made over three days of leisurely schlurping and scored as 'Excellent' on the CT scale. I like a large size ISO shape for Riesling, though I am less didactic than I am on the topic of the best shape for Neb.
  
  The usual luminescent white gold colour and the aromas rise from the glass as you pour and they have a good story to tell. On day 1 it is very zesty, sharper than the 2019, perhaps more on the lemon and lime spectrum than melon and tropical fruit. On days 2-3 it fills out more and some more melon aromas emerge. It shows few signs of oxidation.
  
  This wine has excellent intensity and length, some nice minerality that builds after the initial explosion of fruit. It is a superior Riesling. Aunty Eva does it again!
  
  I enjoy drinking these next to the Robert Weil Keidrich Rieslings, because there are some interesting similarities but also some useful and pleasing differences. I find the Weil tends to give more Lemon sorbet and it is a 'cleaner' wine - perhaps less time on lees or skins? Weil appeals to my head and this wine goes straight to my senses. One is not better than the other.
  
  I do think that this is best on days 2-3 and in that sense it may need more time to show its best than did the 2019, which was just raw sensuality straight out of the bottle. There's the beauty of vintages - vive la difference (or, more appropriately, es lebe der Unterschied)! The 2020 vintage seems to be very highly regarded, although the ripening period was, I think, somewhat shorter than 2019. Highly recommended, especially for hedonists.

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