Wow. Like laible on steroids.
Nose: smoky minerals. Like throwing stream water on a hot smooth rock.
Palate : very dense. Intense. Really good. Mineral blast. Perfect lemon.
Lacks the complexity for me to push it into the 9.6+ realm but fantastically delicious.
Fass selections — 4 months ago
delicious but expensive — a year ago
Very crisp and juicy. Green apple, grapefruit some smokey notes in the palate. Sharp, vibrating and salty acid with long Finish - hell yeah! — a year ago
2nd to last bottle of a long line up in a summer dinner, & showed I thought rather spectacularly between a Petit Chablis & the only red of the night. Paired with local, rich cow cheese- the more vibrant round & traminer- like richness of the varietal came alive as a result. Plus the smoky mineral endive fennel notes made even more clear. Made me rethink how to serve this wine w food, & when. — 2 months ago
Settled in. The exuberant Riesling fruit settled down. I am not sure. Preferred this wine when young. More later. Grown on granite in Durbach a little village on the slope of the black forest. Stonefruit, hint peach, lemon. — 2 months ago
Lyle Fass
Founder Fass Selections
I love this wine but I’ll admit it’s niche. Glorious confectionary nose. Clearly too young, as this wine really sings starting at 10, but whatever, I got too much wine to drink them all at the perfect time. Sweet wood, stone fruits and intense minerality. Some pollen as well on the nose. Such a complex nose. But in 5 years watch out! Palate is so elegant and rich but fresh from the minerals and not the acid which is merely solid. Really coats the tongue. So good. The finish is stone fruits, sweet wood and that rock licking feeling on your tongue. Just a killer Grau because it’s got that Laible magic. — 6 days ago