1989 Egon Müller Scharzhofberger Riesling Spätlese

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 95.3 points

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  3/7/2020 - fclarity wrote: 94 Points

  From an excellent looking bottle, this wine had a deep yellow center and clear rims. The medium intensity nose offered up lemon custard, minerals, dried pear, honey, and a hint of dill.
  
  In the mouth, this wine refined and light but with a powerful flavor impact. The acidity was lythe and behind the scenes at first. It became more pronounced as the wine aired in a lacy, integrated fashion. This wine had great length in a subtle and refreshing way. The only flaw was the intensity faded a touch in the mid-palate.
  
  This was a very unique and captivating wine. I don't think, even among German wines, I have had anything quite like it. This will easily last 10 years in the cellar but I doubt it will get better.

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  4/29/2019 - cfrances33 wrote: 96 Points

  Served in a Zalto universal. Flower / 1015 hPa.
  
  Color was a incredible, shiny gold. The nose, especially after 45 minutes of air, was just stunning. White flowers of honeysuckle and clover, fresh raw honey, some pear. Much more driven by the honey and flower aromas than fruit, this is very elegant but power riesling. A bit of lanolin that gives the suggestion of actual honeycomb. The palate followed with such an intense clover honey. A bit of herbaceousness midpalate, and then a long, dazzling finish of pear, mango, pineapple, coupled with a crisp minerality. The acidity is totally on point, and the sugar has integrated very well, showing more prominently than the '83 a month or so ago, but still in balance. A totally thrilling wine that delivered everything I hoped.

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  11/17/2014 - winequant wrote: 96 Points

  Does it get any more perfect? Maybe the auction bottling...

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  2/22/2014 - Michael Cohen wrote: 97 Points

  Dinner with Egon Müller IV at Daniel (New York, NY): Tasted this along side the 1990. Egon says there was physically more botrytis in '89 than '90 but as the wines stood there was very little botrytis evident in the 89. The wine was greenish-gold and bright. The nose offered a cool herbal note that reminded me of my aloe and lanolin shave cream, this later morphed into more classic scharzhofberger greenness that was also dominant on the pallet -- a note that I personally liken to snow pea. This snow pea note was also present on the pallet and harmonized with a cool menthol-spearmint that was actually reminiscent of E. Vatan's Clos La Neore, and yes minerality to match! This wine is in a great place and is a cooler styled spat, much like the '83 of the same wine that I enjoyed the previous evening. Everything is in balance and the wine posses a consonant 30+ second finish.

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  12/17/2012 - Barry Rothof wrote: 93 Points

  EGON MULLER tasting (Rotterdam, Netherlands): Light yellow color. On the nose, lemon, apple, white flowers and honey. On the palate apple, peach, nuts and honey. Quite dry, perfect acidity, not too high. Medium length and very lively for his age. (9% Alcohol).

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