Scott Kieser

10

I have only three bottles; I opened this with great trepidation, thinking the odds were high it would be shut down. Nope. This is open for business and incredibly intense.

I had this bottling once before. The 1992 vintage in 2010. Neither I nor the retailer had ever heard of the estate. It was ultimately the best wine I had ever tasted, and it remains my benchmark for fine wine today. I have thought about that bottle every day since. While this bottle didn’t achieve the same heights, I travelled back in time with the first sip. It has the same full throttle intensity with paradoxical elegance. It posses the same weightless density, the same salty mineral depth, the same electricity on the finish, the same silkiness, the same well-mannered explosiveness, and the same ability to furlough me from my perpetual stoicism. This is, of course, a young wine and has a lot of baby fat - delicious, apricot flavored adiposity - and needs time for the sugar to integrate. (The 1992 tasted completely dry. No idea if this dries out to the same extent). While this will certainly evolve and improve for some time, I not only have no regrets about trying this early, I adore this youthfully exuberant phase. I’ll probably open another soon to enjoy with duck. @Lyle Fass — a month ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

Unreal! The Coche bottling of the Mosel. Stunning richness and elegance allied with awesome acidity. Genius. — 5 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Silky, sweet but an earthy sweetness. Energy and complexity. Long finish. So pure. So Mosel. Long finish. So complete and Stefan’s best Pinot ever. — 6 months ago

Scott Kieser

9.7

First time with this bottling and I have deep regrets about buying only four bottles. The acidity is extreme. It swallows the residual sugar, leaving just a hint of sweetness, though the sugar makes the fruit burst on the palate and gives the wine density. Shockingly concentrated and intense with salty, mineral depth and a very long finish. This is closer to a generous Grosses Gewachs than my conception of a Kabinett. Thrilling wine! @Lyle Fass is this typical or an anomaly of the vintage? More importantly, do you have anything like this to sell me? — a month ago

Matthew Cohen

9.3

Nose: so clean and pristine. Mineral. Yellow flowers. Very pretty.

Palate: elegant citrus.

Let’s see where this goes.

Fass selections — 3 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.6

Nose: gorgeous. White flower. White cherry flower. So perfumed.

Palate: so silky. Terrific balance. White cherries. Maybe lacks some zing. Very 3 decades ago spatlese.

Should be terrific in 15 years.

Fuck the zing. A wine of elegance. Gorgeous.

Fass selections ppl — 6 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

From earlier this week. No formal notes. Always brilliant. — 2 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.3

Classic mosel kabinett

Nose: airy. Mineral. Green apple.

Palate: perfect kabinett fruit. Green apple. So crisp. Like the first bite of an apple.

Fass selections — 2 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.5

Nose: powerfully dense. Gorgeous. White flowers.

Palate: dense sweet minerals. Stone fruits. Expansive.

Young. — 4 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Oh man what a nose. A minty nose. Fresh decaying leaves, cranberry bog. Red currant. Fresh and energetic. Silky, ripe and perfectly balanced. Juicy and textured. Icing on cake texture. So different than the massive 19’s. Structure. Awesome . — 6 months ago