2007 Weiser-Künstler Enkircher Ellergrub Riesling Spätlese

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 92.8 points

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  12/9/2022 - Ingmars wrote:

  My first bottle of this wine, over three days. A medium yellow colour. A somewhat subdued nose to begin, but develops to show pear, minerals and white-fleshed melon. The palate is open, but crisp, with an intense middle leading to a long, creamy finish. No change noted on the 2nd day from a half, but on the third day (with just a mouthful left in the half-bottle) the pear has been replaced by hints of citrus and the intensity in the mouth starts at the very front and continues to the distant end. Clearly more weighty than the Kabinett from this vineyard in this vintage and also reaching a rating of fine, with more time in hand to develop positively.

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  1/8/2021 - angelcyn Likes this wine: 93 Points

  As good as it gets right now, stone fruits and herbs on the nose quite intense, in the mouth some sweet orange comes on top of the stone fruits, nicely balanced acidity still fresh just darkening to a more orange hue, long finish, nice wine sadly the only bottle I had of this, not seen much in UK.

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  2/20/2016 - acyso wrote: 95 Points

  Rieslingfeier Grand Tasting (New York City, NY): The oldest Weiser-Künstler I've had yet, this gives me so much hope as to the aging potential of their wines. While I never tasted this wine young, I can imagine that the electricity of youth has faded a bit. That said, this is still crackling with energy, and there's a fantastic juicy pineapple note that's exhilarating.

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  3/6/2009 - sweetstuff wrote: 90 Points

  TN: Weiser-Künstler Enkircher Ellergrub Riesling Spätlese; 8 pabv; AP 2 601 562 05 08; US $34/750 ml; Age of Riesling; Valley View wine Sales, direcct import , 8 bottles. Importer: Bill Mayer.
  
  The Mosel's whimsically-named winemaking organization Klitzenkleiner Ring (which, if you haven't heard of it, you should have) has brought us another couple of young Turks, although perhaps that's not exactly the term to use in today's Germany. This couple (lAlexandra Künstler and Konstantin Weiser) looked for old, high-classed, ungrafted vines that could, with more handcrafting and hard work and restrained yields, have the potential to produce something special, and they found some lands to lease in the Enkircher Ellergrub, the Enkircher Zeppwingert, and the Trabener Gaispfad, all not far from the Wolf vineyards of Daniel Vollenweider, and totaling 2.5 ha (about 6.5 acres). They've been in production since 2005. This estate, which I've never tasted before, comes highly recommended from several knowledgeable people.
  
  Light straw with little or no spritz.
  
  Opens with generous scents of white peaches, with suggestions of Ratnapura (Sri Lanka) tea and wet grass. This wine is Auslese-dense, with soaring acidity crisp juiciness, energy, and balance to sweetness. The peaches are decorated with orange blossom, and show a nice tactile sense of its white-grape ripe skin tannins, giving it not exactly a sense of rusticity but more a sense of the ground reality of the winegrowing process, the same that you often encounter in wines like those of Nik Weis at St. Urbans Hof. In addition, there is a nice sense of old-vines harmony and integration in its considerable finish. You can sense that there's a certain spiciness in this wine which speaks of a rather unique blend of soils; I wish I knew more about that.
  
  This wine will drink well for about two more years and then it'll have a five-year awkward phase; by 2016-2017 it'll be a beauty, if you can leave it alone.
  
  It's still a little awkward and will get itself together over the next few months for the pleasures of early sipping. A strong 90 points.

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