2022 Eva Fricke Lorcher Riesling Trocken

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 69 points

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  4/19/2024 - Rote Kappelle Does not like this wine: 69 Points

  Doubtless there are more unpleasant experiences than trying to drink this wine; smelling it might be one, and so might having a prostitute, coming off a long night's work in the seedier parts of Hamburg, suffering a UTI and incurable thrush, urinate on you. So, there are worse things.
  
  It is easy to criticize and another thing entirely to actually create, even things one does not enjoy. I have immense respect for this maker and have absolutely adored other vintages of anything she makes. I am not a professional in the wine industry, I don't have a particularly good palate and in recognition of the matter in my first sentence of this paragraph, when I really don't like a wine, I look to see what other, better, palates have thought.
  
  Here is what a person far more competent than me thought:
  
  "Super-flinty with stacks of Amalfi lemon and nutty apple in the very youthful nose, this is an excellent village wine. Sleek and filigree, with staggering wet-stone minerality. It is at the lower limit of medium-bodied, but with a very long, diamond-bright finish. Excellent aging potential!” 94 points, Stuart Pigott writing for James Suckling's website.
  
  I think it is fair to say that I am at a polar opposite to Herr Pigott, unfortunately. I will take you to the 'nutty apple' as being at the heart of the matter. I smell and taste it as apple cider, reminiscent of the funkier styles from Normandy. I get a lot of aldehyde. A touch can add complexity but to me it is totally out of control here and I have waited for 2 days to make this note, to see if it blows off, or other characters come up. They don't.
  
  I was advised by a reputable source, a professional wine writer (who works in the wine trade as well) that her firm loved some of the 2022 releases from Eva Fricke, but also found unacceptable levels of microbial infection in others. She didn't volunteer what type of infection and I did not press, but aldehydes can be a biproduct of some microbial infections, my research tells me. I also got some underlying pong reminiscent of burnt rubber. Good stuff.
  
  Given the views of Pigott and the quality of the maker, try for yourself. I will still be lining up for her 2023 wines - everyone can have a bad year. However, it gives me no pleasure at all to say that I found this wine totally unacceptable and unredeemable.

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