the new what did u drink tonite thread

2018 Falkenstein Niedermenniger Herrenberg Kabinett feinherb #15
score 1.5 : enjoyed but no rebuy desire
pleasant enough with nice fruit but lacks tension, especially for a feinherb. i believe it's a 2018 characteristic. enjoyed for its' grape juiciness but would shy away from this vintage as a food companion.
 
I had 2018 Willie Schaefer Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spatlese tonight, and it was very soft, both objectively and next to a 2010 Schaefer Domprobst 5 and a 2023 Falkenstein Spatlese Klaus #6. It’s one of the only flabby Schaefer wines I can recall. I’m now a little worried about the (few) other 2018 Schaefer and Pradikat wines I have. I knew it was a soft vintage from the start, so I didn’t buy much, but there are a few.

The best 2018 I recall is Lauer’s Stirn, a Feinherb. That has always been great.
 
2018 J.C. Garnier VdF La Roche Bézigon 14.0% and 2020 J.C. Garnier VdF La Roche 12.5% were no tribute the without sufferance world. The 2018 was noticeably volatile, though not to the point of being undrinkable, whereas the 2020 went firmly into ethyl acetate territory, and can be gainfully be repurposed as a component of homemade liquid cleaner.
 
2022 Wasenhaus Spätburgunder Landwein 12.5%
Pretty red spectrum pinosity, ideal balance, weight and concentration, no oak flavor or texture, pure and clean. I suspect too young to show any complexity. It's only flaw is the price (this one, bought in the name of research, cost ninety bucks at trumptian exchange rates).
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
2022 Wasenhaus Spätburgunder Landwein 12.5%
... cost ninety bucks at trumptian exchange rates...
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!! In Portugal?

That definitely puts expectations way out of whack. It's less than half that in Germany, and even there it's over-priced relative to other options.
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
2022 Wasenhaus Spätburgunder Landwein 12.5%
... cost ninety bucks at trumptian exchange rates...
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!! In Portugal?

That definitely puts expectations way out of whack. It's less than half that in Germany, and even there it's over-priced relative to other options.
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Shipped from France, 75 Europeans
 
Yowzers. You might look into shipping from Germany! 75 euros is the retail price for the high-end single-vineyard wines.
 
More substantively, I've always liked the Wasenhaus wines, but just found them poor value. Will be interesting to see what happens, because they used to fly off the shelves. But this summer they were sitting in Berlin retail collecting dust, supposedly because locals were not in a spendy mood anymore. Not necessarily a Wasenhaus-specific issue, but will see how sustainable it is.
 
With a selection of takeout Indian, to celebrate a momentous research result: 2012 JJ Prüm Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett, absolutely singing tonight. Peaches by the bushel drenched in lime juice, all next to an unlit kerosene lamp. Deep, no trace of sulfur and zippy acidity to bring the whole package home.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
... to celebrate a momentous research result: 2012 JJ Prüm Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett, absolutely singing tonight. Peaches by the bushel drenched in lime juice, all next to an unlit kerosene lamp. Deep, no trace of sulfur and zippy acidity to bring the whole package home.

Mark Lipton
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That's the way to do it. Celebrate the result and not wait for the publication! (Or maybe you'll open something else at that point)

Either way, enjoy life, with good food and wine. And in retrospect, 2012 is such a nice friendly vintage compared to these Big Ones we have these days.
 
With some quail from the grill, we had a bottle of the 2014 Louis Boillot Cote de Nuits Villages. After 20 minutes, it opened up to a fleshy, red-fruited wine with an intriguing nose of pencil lead and earth. Fresh acidity made it a great foil for the food. Truly, a great showing for a relatively humble bottling.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by MLipton:
With some quail from the grill, we had a bottle of the 2014 Louis Boillot Cote de Nuits Villages. After 20 minutes, it opened up to a fleshy, red-fruited wine with an intriguing nose of pencil lead and earth. Fresh acidity made it a great foil for the food. Truly, a great showing for a relatively humble bottling.
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no pineapple this time, or wrong wine pairing?
 
Last night a bottle of 2011 Tempier Rosé blew me to smithereens, making it impossible not to enter hyperbole-superbowl territory. First an extremely attractive golden bronze color, followed by a combo of aroma/flavor/weight/density that somersaulted over any attempt to parse and went direct to the state-of-grace jugular, leaving the sigma of the particles in the dust, just an impeccably fine piece of craft caught at the acme-apogee-zenith of its dust to dust. I kiddeth ye noteth. Afterwards, a 2011 Mugnier Maréchale did its job pretty well, but was a pale fire by comparison, without the lusty lustre that might have given it a chance in this company.
 
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