2013 Lauer Kupp and Schonfels

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Rahsaan

Rahsaan
I'm still developing exposure to all the many Lauer bottlings, so I don't know if these showings were representative. But I had a nice time this weekend with the 2013 Lauer Kupp Fass 18 GG and the 2013 Lauer Schonfels Fass 11 GG.

The Kupp was perhaps a bit disjointed, bouncing between solid golden fruit depth and racy verdant briskness. Nonetheless, it was great with dinner and plenty of Saar fun on its own. Worth drinking.

However, the Schonfels was giving a bit more. Slower on the uptake, it required several hours to unwind. But when it did, the poise, the elegance, the layers, they were all there. Well worth drinking.
 
I am a huge Lauer fan and in particular Schonfels. Florian did an amazing job in 2013 and also in 2014 he made some of the best wines of a very challenging vintage.
 
I'm still learning my way around the vineyards, but I did read how Schonfels is a very different vineyard from the Kupp plots.

Have not seen his 2014s yet, but am looking.
 
Another lovely bottle of the 2013 Schonfels this weekend, such great poise and composure.

Also enjoyed the 2013 Saarfeilser Fass 13 GG, which was a bit more feisty and fun, and just as worthy of being drunk.
 
On the other hand, the sweetness of a recent 2011 Lauer Fass 2 (so-called extra trocken, despite it's 5.5 g/l) was so nauseatingly candied that I sold my remaining five bottles. And it wasn't an off bottle; previous ones were more or less the same, so I just lost patience with this particular bottling.

But I've been happy with the 2011 Schonfels and 2012 Senior (Fass 6), Unterstenbersch (Fass 12), and Neuenberg (Fass 17).
 
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