2000 Gunderloch Nackenheim Rothenberg Riesling Spätlese

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  2/13/2010 - AJ72 wrote: 92 Points

  This was great. Floral, fragrant, pure, intense with a beautiful freshness and zest. Very good.

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  7/10/2009 - graemeg wrote:

  Finished the fourth (final) bottle of 2000 Gunderloch Nackenheimer Rothenberg Reisling Spätlese (Rheinhessen) {4 01 or 34 01, can't tell} yesterday.
  Drunk over six months, the first was stunning last December, still shot with green, developed candied-apple & peach aromas & flavours, with lychee notes. Discreetly sweet but balanced, with softening acid and at its peak (from a tricky vintage), this was a pleasure to drink. A second bottle some months later was heavily oxidised, flat and unappealing. A third bottle, opened a month ago, was sealed with a synthetic stopper. Huh? This was worse still, even darker gold, totally flat, with fruit gone and no development. Textbook oxidation. It was with some trepidation that I took the capsule of the last bottle.
  Never thought I'd say this, but - it had a cork stopper. Hooray! Perhaps by fluke, this was a return to the first example; a nicely aged seductive spätlese riesling at the top of its form, with the patina of age an intriguing filter through which to taste the citric fruits. Terrific wine.
  Cork; two from three, Synthetic; none from one. Sigh.

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  4/10/2009 - Rick Hall wrote:

  Bought for a bargain from an online sale and worth twice the price! Heady nose of crystallised fruit and a well-balanced, sweet mouthful of guava, melon and mango with plenty of residual sugar.

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  11/30/2008 - graemeg wrote:

  NobleRottersSydney - Christmas Dinner 2008 (Andrew's warehouse): {cork} Some development apparent, but still plenty of filigree apple flavours weaving in and out of the remaining acid. Very good indeed, especially given the reputation of the vintage.

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  12/8/2007 - JohnSh wrote: 91 Points

  Didn't take notes on this first wine to be opened at a dinner party. The sweetness is starting to lessen, and one is left with a lovely balanced wine with a hint of aged characteristics; quite rich on the palate, with lots of tropical fruits, herbs and minerals (A-).

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