Wow.
Nose: gorgeous dried peach dried apricot petrol melange.
Palate : inanely delicious. Not cloying. If this is botrytized it’s so clean. Not viscous.
So fresh and clean. Not super oxidized. This is ageing like a motherfucker.
Fass selections — 9 days ago
Nose: yellow flowers. A bit reticent.
Palate: stone fruits. Nectarine. Apricot. Bright acidity. Very very tasty. A bit monolithic on open. — 12 days ago
An utterly delicious wine.
Blackberries. Licorice. Spice. Great balance.
I had this with sausage and peppers and was not disposed towards a lengthy review given the tastiness of the dish. Having said that, this has some lovely grip. Lilacs appear on the nose. Faint hints of vanilla. I treated this as an unserious wine. But it isn’t.
Fass selections. — 14 days ago
Thorle kabinett holle.
Amazing rheinhessen fruit. Mineral. So good. — 2 days ago
A little bashful right now.
Nose: aerated green apple.
Palate: green apple skin. Nicely rich. Very good fruit. Some balancing crunchy minerality.
You can drink this on its fruit now but I’d hold for 3 years. — 7 days ago
Nose: lilacs.
Palate : sweet fruit. Delicious. Not very spice on the attack. More. A lingering spice on the finish. As this opens the best sweet licorice ever.
Terrific change of pace wine.
Fass selections — 10 days ago
Nose: so floral. Violets. Red Roses. Ntense. Fantastic!
Palate: elegantly savory. Mid season cherries. Lovely hint of licorice.
Fass selections — 9 days ago
Nose: white flowers. Finely powdered minerals. Very fine. Needs and hour to open and for the traces of wood to mostly blow off.
Palate: super clean. Very focused. Mineral in a precise way. Vaguely lemony but not about the fruit. Some lactic richness. Good acidic balance. As this opens gorgeous sweet Meyer lemon fruit.
I’m guessing this will be way better in 2 years. There’s a teeny bit of remaining oak which is distracting from what this will be.
A minimum 9.5 with 9.8 upside.
Fass selections — 13 days ago
Matthew Cohen
Nose: so elegantly floral. So nebbiolo. Deep.
Palate: so silky. Elegant. Supple early season cherry. Still fresh but has integrates perfectly.
Fass selections — 16 hours ago