Last for 2014 and first for 2015--AP 14 Schaefer Domprobst Riesling Auslese
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 12:13 pm
1st for 2015-2006 Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Riesling Auslese #14 - Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer (12/31/2014)
$86/750 ml; 8.0 pabv, Thiese/Skurnik, Oakland Hills, OH Dorothy Lane Market. jht
Has an odd, flaky white crust in the bottle, probably tartrate, that dissipates with the touch of a finger; when decanted, leaves the crust behind and fizzes with the tartrate particles as nuclei. Coarser tartrate-like crystals left in the bottom of the decanter after the second part of the double decant. Quite bitty wine but with a brilliant green-gold; thick with extract and glass-coating.
Opens with the sweetness covered up by grippy orange-peel tannins; there is penetrating fruit of razor-like simplicity and enormous length, a wine of great promise. Just out of the bottle, it's almost burning with acidity Next on the nose comes the petrol and then the fresh bread and butter.' Then the palate comes sweet-sour dried apricot dripping with orange-flower honey. Some faint ginger scent lingers. A wine of powerful botrytis effects but absolutely clean and focused.
At 12 hours it's showing harmonic integration of these both powerful and seductive flavors, not missing a beat.
Schildknecht's idea that this is a wine in adolescence on its way to early adulthood at age 40 is not far off. Drink 2021 (so I'll hopefully have a chance to drink it before I die) through 2046. 99/100.
The greatest young Mosel Riesling Auslese I've tasted in 40 years of pursuit of this wine. (99 pts.)
$86/750 ml; 8.0 pabv, Thiese/Skurnik, Oakland Hills, OH Dorothy Lane Market. jht
Has an odd, flaky white crust in the bottle, probably tartrate, that dissipates with the touch of a finger; when decanted, leaves the crust behind and fizzes with the tartrate particles as nuclei. Coarser tartrate-like crystals left in the bottom of the decanter after the second part of the double decant. Quite bitty wine but with a brilliant green-gold; thick with extract and glass-coating.
Opens with the sweetness covered up by grippy orange-peel tannins; there is penetrating fruit of razor-like simplicity and enormous length, a wine of great promise. Just out of the bottle, it's almost burning with acidity Next on the nose comes the petrol and then the fresh bread and butter.' Then the palate comes sweet-sour dried apricot dripping with orange-flower honey. Some faint ginger scent lingers. A wine of powerful botrytis effects but absolutely clean and focused.
At 12 hours it's showing harmonic integration of these both powerful and seductive flavors, not missing a beat.
Schildknecht's idea that this is a wine in adolescence on its way to early adulthood at age 40 is not far off. Drink 2021 (so I'll hopefully have a chance to drink it before I die) through 2046. 99/100.
The greatest young Mosel Riesling Auslese I've tasted in 40 years of pursuit of this wine. (99 pts.)
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