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.

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!

2002
fact sheet

GFS-050
GFS-050H

Koberner Weisenberg Riesling Kabinett
Salty, precise, detailed and charming; clean fruit, no botrytis. One of them digital critters which seems to "read" your palate. Or, for my more elderly readers, a wine which etches flavors as if written with a fountain pen.
SOS: 2 (between three and nine years) 12/750ml or 12/375ml

Koberner Weisenberg Riesling Spätlese
More "done" on the inside but seemingly no sweeter; baked apple, spiced apple or
Empire apple; salty like the Kabinett but this is dark bread now, a larger resonance.
SOS: 2 (between five and thirteen years) 12-750ml or 12/375ml

Koberner Weisenberg Riesling Auslese
Well, this is riper still, like duh – and very tangy; it might have used more swetness but some Eiswein’s already in it and there’s no more to be sacrificed, so the wine turned out “masculine” and big and generous.
SOS: 2 (between seven and fifteen years)

Koberner Uhlen Riesling Eiswein, 12/375ml
Like `em spiky? Well fasten the nipple clamps and close your eyes; 150 Oechsle, 15g.l. acidity, 170g.l. rs; purest pear-williams fragrance along with the licorice Uhlen signature ; wonderful purity and minerality, but you must enjoy marked acidity. Doesn’t cost much, though . . .
SOS: 3 (I’d drink this now with foie gras aka goose liver)