1996 Montevertine Riserva with a passing mention of Muller Catoir

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Jay Miller

Jay Miller
1996 Montevertine Riserva

Gorgeous explosive nose on opening, started shutting down pretty quickly. A little light on the palate but over the course of the next 3.5 hours it continued developing depth and complexity. Fully resolved, soft flavors. From the taste I'd say it was a beautiful softly mature wine but the way it developed implies more time may benefit? I think I have one more so maybe I'll wait and see. But it's in a very nice place right now for anyone who does not demand power from their wines.

2001 Muller Catoir Haardter Burgergarten Spatlese 2134
corked!

There were some other good wines but I left my pen home so I can't really comment other than to say that post-Hans Gunter scheurebe from Muller Catoir IMO isn't nearly as good as the ones he made.
 
post-Hans Gunter scheurebe from Muller Catoir IMO isn't nearly as good as the ones he made
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An understatement, but as I said yesterday it's a bit unfair to compare most wines to the old Catoirs - the few Hans-Gunter Schwarz wines I've had have been really thrilling experiences, and there are a whole lot of wines out there that would pale next to things like the 98 Scheurebe Auslese you opened last month, or that insane, electric 01 Scheurebe Spatlese. But I am looking forward to opening that 04 Im Breumel Spatlese trocken next week, I've really enjoyed the drier wines I've had from Franzen.

I'll also add that the 2003 AJ Adam Dhronhofberger 'Tholey' Auslese we had at the end of the meal was superb stuff. Really rich, exotic, slightly leesy and malty and very well balanced.

Cheers,

Salil
 
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