A lamely eBobish question re German Riesling vintages

[Thor]

Although I have rarely found that producer's auction bottlings to outstrip their "normal" counterparts by any amount worth paying for.

In some as-yet uncounted number of years, we can test that theory, thanks to my pre-Rovani forays through Dee Vine. I'm agnostic until presented with the evidence. Or it's just a cheap excuse to drink a lot of Brcke. Whatever.

 

[David M. Bueker]

originally posted by Claude Kolm:

originally posted by Arjun Mendiratta:

originally posted by Claude Kolm:
It's largely a stylistic difference.

Does that mean botrytis? Or something else?

To a large extent botrytis. Much more wines for show and for tasting than for drinking.

At one time Helmut Donnhoff actually preferred to have a (very) little botrytis in his regular Rieslings as well, so the stylistic difference gap was narrower than it might have seemed. I am not certain if the gap is larger or the same now, as I have not tasted an auction wine since the 2003 vintage.