von Schleinitz
2001 WINES FOR THE USA
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von Schleinitz at a glance:
Unique yet classic Mosel wines from impossibly steep slopes and
the warmest vineyards along the entire river. Especially lemon-grassy,
Granny-apple flavors. Excellent value for steep-slope wines.
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how the wines taste:
They taste subtly of licorice and spiced apples. Lemon-grass also.
Acids tend to taste brilliant and iridescent without being analytically
exceptional. The wines are almost always spritzy, and are piquantly
charming; very easy wines to snuggle up to!
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2001
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GFS-044
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Koberner Weisenberg Riesling Kabinett
Pure, wonderful nose; apple, fennel, wintergreen; palate is 2001
all the way, vividness and
mass and salty mineral. The best wine from here in years.
SOMMELIER ALERT!
SOS: 2 (between four to twelve years)
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GFS-043 |
Koberner Weisenberg Riesling Spätlese Halbtrocken
Piquant and slinky; lemon-grassy and gently dry, any sharpness washed
over by the vintage’s
richness, but it’s still got that fennel-frond lemon-grass
jazz, and it’s zesty as an otter.
SOMMELIER ALERT!
SOS: 0 (now to two years; again from eight to eleven)
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Koberner Weisenberg Riesling Spätlese
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Botrytis shows up (with a pizza!), but this is big, serious wine,
fervidly spicy and gorgeously
mineral, with racy tangy fruit and dense rocky power.
SOS: 2 (between six to fifteen years)
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