2022 Weingut Hermann Ludes Riesling "Hermann"

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 90 points

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  4/3/2024 - Benj wrote: flawed

  The second 2022 Riesling in a week that was unmanageably reduced on the nose. Persistent moderate to high unpleasant egg aroma. Did not blow off with an hour in a decanter or even overnight.

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  12/3/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Ludes Horizontal (Detroit): 10% abv. AP 2. NOSE: slicing gestures of smoldering chalk pierced with lime, citron, and peppermint. Golden, reflective highlights carry perfumes of spring herbs and green apple. MOUTH: perfectly trocken, borderline austere; stacked with raspy, crumbled, and arid stone aggregate; insistent pulses of lime oil and salt extracted from bedrock. At the same time, the pace is fleet. The action is organized and unencumbered. This is a tonic and quenching object, and brightly transparent. I should be concerned that my trocken maximalist siblings might overlook this item, which would only add to their losses.
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  Now 48 hours after the bottle was first open, some of that intense dry structure seems to have relaxed a bit. By taste, it still fits squarely in model trocken. Yesterday, I couldn't have guessed it had more than 7g RS (but more like <5); today, I suppose I could imagine analysis up to 9 or 10g.
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  72 hours post screwcap twistoff, threatening to invite an upgrate (92? 91.5?) Some of the fruit and structure has consolidated into an appetizing rinse of saline resin.

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