This wine is more about the single-vineyard terroir than the fruits. It has earthy and mineral flavors. it opened up after an hour of decanting. I prefer the multi-vineyard Diamond Mountain Cabernet from this producer. — 2 months ago
Honey, herbaceous. Residual sugar coats the tongue in a pleasing way, and finishes with some acid — 3 months ago
Astor tasting — 4 months ago
Medium lemon yellow . Ripe lemon , white flowers , camomile, touch of wet slate and subtle petrol notes . Very elegant and precise . On the palate light and weightless with high acidity balancing the moderate sweetness . Ripe citrus , grapefruit , baked apple , wet stones , really intense and mouthwatering . Long and perfectly poised , honied finish . Young but drinking well , and will be fun to follow over the next 10-15 years . — a month ago
Damn, the Germans have just laid down a great hand of cards in the Sauvignon Blanc game.
More tropical and spice notes than Loire or NZ, actually, strangely the nose is more similar (yet more elegant and restrained) to the finer North American SBs I've tried. Minerality is medium and hard to pick out a soil type. Acidity is on the lower side.
Flavours follow the nose with pineapple, pear, allspice, Rainier cherry.
I favored the bottle that was open for an hour+. The new bottle gave me a very 2022 sense (ie: a young tart) — 4 months ago
Nose: an elegant perfume of green apples.
Palate: perfect crunchy green apple juice. Powders minerals. Crystalline acids. Elegant density. Almost crunchy. There is a perfection about this. Stunningly well made. Wow.
Almost the platonic apogee of dry mosel Riesling.
Fass selections — 3 months ago
Peter van den Besselaar
Vintage 2017 | paired with langoustine and lemon — 15 days ago