2022 Weingut Hermann Ludes Thörnicher Ritsch Riesling Kabinett "Terrassen"

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  4/10/2024 - CADomer Likes this wine: 94 Points

  This is one of my favorite bottlings from one of my favorite producers. I was excited to open a bottle from the 2022 vintage to get a feel for how this tiny terraced block from the great Thörnicher Ritsch shows in this particular vintage.
  These wines defy conventional wisdom and can be open in the refrigerator for weeks without losing a step. I opened this wine and drank a third of the bottle, popped it back in the refrigerator and then came back it 16 days later. On day one this was racy, tangy, and smokey on a tightly wound and very youthful frame. But then my first taste after being open for over two weeks was absolutely WOW! So incredibly delicious with a myriad of fruit in the vessel of purity that was like mineral water. Piquant apples that seemed to evolve into nectarines and maybe even a hint of plums. Bergamot that gave way to juicy tangelos. All this while being so saline and pure that I couldn’t help but be taken back to being on the monolith that is Ritsch. Absolutely gorgeous with a flutter of sweet herbs and balsamic botanical notes.
  Insanely pure, honest, deep yet filigreed, and ultimately so incredibly drinkable.

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  12/3/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Ludes Horizontal (Detroit): 8% abv. AP 7. NOSE: I imagine this is some maniacal plot to rehabilitate the smell of Palmolive as it was circa 1975. Sturdy and unbounded, launched, scented impressions of mints, laurels, fennel, limoncello, ginger, and jagged, mythical slices of apple and pear. MOUTH: it rinses in due haste. Bony, fluid rock and quenched steel carry the action forward. Clarity. Geological transparency. Lilting, weightless, dry puffs of strawberry frosting intersect with herbal cigarettes, and cold ink on rag paper. How will this fill in? Where is the tension, and will it unspool over time?
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  Drinking it 24 hours later, I notice how distinctively pale and washed is the flavor. This vacancy allows room for startling launch of translucent floral sweetness. Translucent, I tells ya.

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