Johannishof Rudesheimer Berg Rottland Riesling Spatlese 2004
The 2004 Rudesheimer Berg Rottland Riesling Spatlese smells of very ripe apricot, yellow plum preserves and subtle brown spices and a nip of botrytis. These same themes are allied on the palate to a salty, pungently mineral streak and swell to extroverted proportions. Nearly 90 grams of residual sugar are checked by the wine’s acid and structure so that it somehow doesn’t come off finishing with overwhelming sweetness. I suspect that there is a lot in reserve, even as regards very short-term evolution, and the wine should be a good 15 to 20 year keeper in the cellar as well. - Rated 89, Robert Parker Completely beguiling aromas of green tea and roses segue into lemon cake and apple flavors in this sleek, intense Riesling. Bordering on creamy, it resonates through the long finish. Best from 2007 through 2025. 1,375 cases made. –BS - Rated 92, Wine Spectator
Maximin Grunhauser Apbsberg Riesling Spatlese 2007
The apple and mineral flavors take on an herbal edge in this gentle, creamy version from the Mosel. It fades quickly on the finish. Drink now. Tasted twice, with consistent notes. 1,000 cases made. -Wine Spectator
JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett 2007
Mosel-Saar-Ruwer. Mosel wines have enjoyed a high reputation since the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Very favorable weather conditions until August fostered the development of the grapes in 1998. Those vintners who managed to harvest selectively were rewarded with clean grape material, good for brilliant Kabinett and Spätlese wines. Upon...
Dr.Loosen Wehlener Sonnenhuhr Riesling Kabinett 2007
Wehlener Sonnenuhr (VAY-len-er ZON-en-ooer) is a precipitously steep and rocky vineyard which yields some of the most elegant and sophisticated white wines in the world. It has very thin soil and the purest blue slate of any Mosel vineyard. This gives a lively minerality to the wine, along with a delicate...
JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese 375ml 2007
Despite its still youthful freshness, this rich and at the same time elegant Spätlese (literally: late-harvest ) from the famous Wehlener Sonnenuhr vineyard shows a fine fruity, floral Riesling characteristic and an underlying hint of mineral from the grey Devonian slate soil. Serve this refreshing wine slightly chilled! Enjoy it just...
JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese 375ml 2007
Very favorable weather conditions until August fostered the development of the grapes in 1997. Those vintners who managed to harvest selectively were rewarded with clean grape material, good for brilliant Kabinett and Spätlese wines. Upon these roots Joh. Jos. Prüm founded the eponymous estate in 1911, which now encompasses 35 acres...
Koehler-Ruprecht Kallstdter Steinacker Scheurebe BA 2000 375ml
We got a Scheu-reprieve! Bernd's leasing this site for a few years while he decides whether to keep it. He seems to have reconciled himself to having Scheurebe somewhere and this wine's a jim-dandy of an argument in favor of my favorite lil' strumpet. It's a wonderful German wine! More detail...
JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett 2007
Prum’s 2004 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett A.P. #9 is redolent of apple blossom, clover, honey, vanilla, lemon, and fresh yeasty notes, significantly more forthcoming than was the nose on the corresponding Graacher. In the mouth, it manages to seem virtually weightless, yet pleasantly soothing and mouth-coating in texture and satisfyingly insistent in its ester-rich apple blossom and clover inner-mouth florality. It finishes with long, pure but discrete apple, almond, and wet stone. Typically for this wine, one can look for it to gain complexity over three to five years in bottle and give pleasure for two decades. There tend to be multiple Prum bottlings of a given combinations of site and Pradikat, but I am never privy to an overview of these. To sin on the side of safety, I have noted the A.P. # for wines I tasted from bottle, but Manfred Prum routinely seeks to assure me that any alternate bottlings will not differ substantially from those I have tasted, and consistent excellence – like ageworthiness – has long been a hallmark of Joh. Jos. Prum Rieslings. Picking this year – until the middle of December – culminated in Eiswein harvests several days earlier than the vast majority of those essayed in 2004. I did not have opportunity to taste the embryonic results of those pickings, nor did I taste Prum’s 2004s from Bernkastel and Zeltingen sites. - Rated 88, Robert Parker Complex and scintillating aromas and flavors of black currant, violet, lime and mineral mesh seamlessly with the lovely structure and silky texture. Fine length and juicy aftertaste. Drink now through 2025. 3,000 cases made. –BS - Rated 92, Wine Spectator
Kurt Darting Durkheimer Nonnengarten Rieslaner TBA 2000 500ml
Massive and stentorian German wine, yet detailed and vinous, not liqueurous; dense as titanium.
