Matthew Cohen

9.6

Kuhling Gillot hipping 2020

Wow.

Nose is “outrageous” dense. Umami. Complex. Wow.

Palate: rich but balanced. Dense but bright. Awesome.

As this opens fucktastic brininess. — 3 months ago

Jakub Kalinowski

9.1

Aromatic and so pure.
Honeysuckle, peach pie, a touch of lanolin and mandarin peel. And yet - this is retrained & quite cool. Warm slate emerges.
On the palate this is impeccably balanced, so poised. Juicy, just ripe, with purity of fruit and amazing tension. Finishes off with a slightly creamy mouthfeel (very Burgundian!) and a beautiful long mineral finish.
Drinking perfectly right now. Simply delish!
— 3 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.5

Nose: mineral. Fruity. Yellow flowers. As this opens gorgeous white flowers.

Palate: rich. Yellow fruits. Good minerality. Delicious. Great juiciness.

Fass selections. — 8 months ago

Brandon Thiessen

9.0

Crisp and bright, taut, pretty, stone fruit, citrus and mineral. Not as concentrated or complex as anticipated. — 2 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

So open and lean. Super mineral and acid driven. So 21. — 3 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Excellent purity, aromas and cut. — 5 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.5

Nose : pretty white flowers on open.

Palate: elegantly mineral. Prettily tart.

Lets see where this goes.

Day 2. Nose has hints of being mesmerizing. White flowers. Lemon flowers. Really pretty. A subtle intensity. Hints of Tahitian vanilla. Very fine. Integrated mineral dust. Such fine minerals.

Palate is lagging the nose. Elegantly mineral. A hard to describe sense of integration. Elegant “sweet” fruit. Perfect toned down stone fruits.

Don’t drink this until 2026 at the earliest. Likely 2028. It could be brilliant but it’s just not expressing itself now. The balance and the studios is there though.

— 9 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.6

Nose: Smokey in a sexy wild child way. Almost savory. As this opens this gorgeous freshly pulverized sweet minerals. Wow.

Palate. Rich. Great yellow apple fruit. Popping acidity. Terrific. Sweet minerals.

The COVID vintage. More time spent in the vineyards than ever. Nothing else to do.

Fass selections — 3 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.5

Nose: dense. Grapefruit.

Palate: grapefruit. Some integrated richness. Very good.

Fass selections — 4 months ago

Andrew McIntyre

9.4

I think Battenfeld has cornerned the Pfalz crushed stone minerality market...brilliant wine. Zingy lemon rounds this excellent wine off. Already amazing but with potential. At €35 this offers top value for money and proves really for me that Riesling is the king of white wines.
Paired with homemade pesto pasta — 8 months ago