2007 Weingut Josef Leitz Rüdesheimer Berg Rottland Riesling Alte Reben

Community Tasting Notes (9) Median Score: 91 points

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  1/2/2021 - dagij Likes this wine: 94 Points

  From magnum. This is just impressive, showing the combined craft of Leitz with the beautiful '07-vintage. A powerhouse of a wine, showing all it's power both in the color (deep golden), the nose (lots of slate and petroleum as well as peach, yellow apples, tropical fruit and lime), and the mouth (full bodied attack, lots of sweet, almost dried, fruit perfectly balanced with an intense acidity), and the intense aftertaste. Again, the acidity lifts the aftertaste to another dimension. If there is any drawback here, it is perhaps that the fruit is a bit overripe. But who cares with this balance? Will keep for decades, but will probably not get much better than now.

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  10/14/2019 - salil wrote: 88 Points

  My note from 9 years ago says this tasted like rocks, and it hasn't changed much on that front. It's a total mineral bomb of a wine, though I think I liked it better young when the fruit was more generous and rounder. Now it feels a touch severe and relatively one-note with lots of rocks and not a whole lot else.

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  10/19/2013 - wurzel68 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Reife Apfel- und Birnennoten, Wiesenkamille, etwas Botrytis; subtile exotische Fruchtanklänge; weicher Körper voller Schmelz mit fordernder, druckvoller Säure und sehr langem Ábgang; tolle Liaison von Frucht und Säure

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  10/18/2013 - DK Amateur Likes this wine:

  Upon opening this has a great maturing citrus nose and it shows a lot of acidity -- incredible how these 2007s can remain backward. An hour later: a brilliant medium-bodied riesling (12.5 %) that seemed to become more and more youthful with time. "Jede Stunde, die hingeht, wird jünger", as Rilke says. Great stuff.

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  8/3/2012 - Zweder wrote: 90 Points

  Perfumed bouquet with a lot of minerals and some honey. On the palate focused tart lemon and lime, apple, white fruits, pineapple, minerals again and a slight touch of petrol. Good concentration and great length.

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