Very good Riesling with a good length and complexity but defenitively not worth the price tag. Drunk over several days and it don't fades... For a hot year like 2003 really good
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2003 Dry Riesling - Ten years after: Light to medium yellow. In the nose it's slightly soapy, very floral and exotic, very light and airy, dancing and dreamy. Sort of like Windy & Carl as a Riesling. On the palate, it's also nice and light with very fine and mild acidity, white to yellow fruit notes. Only for lovers of dreamy and slightly blurry wines, for Debussy listeners, for amateurs of the photography of David Hamilton. I like it, but it's very individual in its style.
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Apricot, mango and passionfruit scent, amazingly still quite a blast of SO2 (not unusual for 2003 rieslings, but more usually absorbed by now). The palate bears witness to a heroic struggle to make an elegant, refined, dry riesling from grapes produced in the inferno summer of 2003. Very refined, almost watery entry, more apricot, sulphur, perky acidity, but above all tons of tropical fruit. Long finish, which can't quite decide whether to plumb the depths of greatness and decides, well... maybe not today. If you have several bottles, it would be well worth keeping one for 15 years, just to see if the wager pays off. Even now, this shows its origin as the very finest selection from one of the finest vineyards on earth. I actually found the "standard" Auslese Trocken Hölle/Kirchenstück more impressive in this vintage than this Goldkapsel, but there is intelligence and premeditation behind this wine which commands respect (even if I do not fully understand it today). Who knows, this may yet turn out to be a true masterpiece. 92P(+)
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1/1/2014 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 92 Points
Very good Riesling with a good length and complexity but defenitively not worth the price tag. Drunk over several days and it don't fades... For a hot year like 2003 really good
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4/10/2013 - octopussy Likes this wine: 90 Points
2003 Dry Riesling - Ten years after: Light to medium yellow. In the nose it's slightly soapy, very floral and exotic, very light and airy, dancing and dreamy. Sort of like Windy & Carl as a Riesling. On the palate, it's also nice and light with very fine and mild acidity, white to yellow fruit notes. Only for lovers of dreamy and slightly blurry wines, for Debussy listeners, for amateurs of the photography of David Hamilton. I like it, but it's very individual in its style.
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12/5/2010 - honest bob wrote: 92 Points
Apricot, mango and passionfruit scent, amazingly still quite a blast of SO2 (not unusual for 2003 rieslings, but more usually absorbed by now). The palate bears witness to a heroic struggle to make an elegant, refined, dry riesling from grapes produced in the inferno summer of 2003. Very refined, almost watery entry, more apricot, sulphur, perky acidity, but above all tons of tropical fruit. Long finish, which can't quite decide whether to plumb the depths of greatness and decides, well... maybe not today. If you have several bottles, it would be well worth keeping one for 15 years, just to see if the wager pays off. Even now, this shows its origin as the very finest selection from one of the finest vineyards on earth. I actually found the "standard" Auslese Trocken Hölle/Kirchenstück more impressive in this vintage than this Goldkapsel, but there is intelligence and premeditation behind this wine which commands respect (even if I do not fully understand it today). Who knows, this may yet turn out to be a true masterpiece. 92P(+)
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5/1/2009 - honest bob wrote: 91 Points
Strong scent of apricot and white peach. Heavy ond oily in mouth, a little too sweet - perhaps just not ready? 91P(?)
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9/19/2006 - Mlermontov wrote: 91 Points
Dry German Wines Seminar - EYE OPENING STUFF (Rudy Weist Selections); 9/18/2006-9/19/2006: Nose: Ripe, sweaty, apples,
Mouth starting to close up? VERY RICH full bodied wine, good acid for an '03.. very powerfull wine. maybe better with time but right now i think it would overpower any food served with it
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