Willi Schaefer, Graacher Domprobst Riesling Auslese

Willi Schaefer, Graacher Domprobst Riesling AusleseThe auction destined 2005 Graacher Domprobst Riesling Auslese A. P. #2 offers a nose of over ripe melon, brown spices, apple jelly. Oily in texture and tinged with the spice and honey of botrytis on the palate, this then finishes with a shocking brightness and vivacity of citrus infiltrating a finish of quince preserves, apple jelly and jellied red currant. While it may not exhibit the layering or the elegance and delicacy of several of the best wines

(from purchased fruit in Chalandins)

The elegant and pure nose offers up notes of stylish white fleshed fruit

Peter and Christina Hall have farmed their beautifully isolated little Sussex plot for half a century

This bottle was way better than the one I tasted as part of a vertical tasting of this wine in 2016

Krug's NV Grande Cuvée 160ème Édition (ID 214025) is in brilliant shape today and a great Champagne

This too is explicitly built for the long haul and is a wine that’s going to need at least a decade first

you have to meter out water during the warm summers

Has significant potential for ageing

vitality and lingering salinity

at different times

There is really lovely detail to the refined yet muscular and powerful medium-bodied flavors that possess plenty of minerality on the firmly structured and youthfully austere finish

they were talking about something around $150