2021 A.J. Adam Riesling Im Pfarrgarten Feinherb

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 89.1 points

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  5/25/2024 - chbeaumont wrote: 88 Points

  Pale lemon, starbright; touch exotic & tropical; medium, showy, tropical with an attractive dry edge on finish. Simplistic & none the worse for that. One for the med term.

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  1/4/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 Points

  3/12. 10% abv. AP 03. 55° F digestif. Buxom, sweet grapefruit seed and roses. Rich, round texture subordinates to drying mineral grip. This is as much bitter and sweet as it is tart; fitting AJA/Dhron expectations of pear-scented, exotic richness and floral bitter refreshment; stately and serious to pair with rare, crusted rib chops. I am no longer so sure this needs to be 80% depleted by 2026—extend the window to 2031.
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  24 hours later, resealed in the fridge. It begins at 45° F and warms up as it goes. It's ever as good, yet my pleasure somehow accelerates as the bottom of the bottle approaches—until finally, the very end stresses its thesis: mineral ligature. All the ample body and perfume tightens into sculpture. Bottles like this need an internal trapdoor where a reserve portion is stored for moments like these. I believe you've had similar experiences. Aside from the usual mechanical speculations, could this have something to do with the direction of temperature travel? I mean, yesterday I drank it from cellar as it cooled; today, from the fridge as it warmed. The latter produced decisively superior results. (Another variable to consider, this one with a larger body of literature behind it, is session first vs. session last order.)

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  9/6/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 91 Points

  2/12. 10% abv. AP 03. fallen ruby grapefruits bleeding sugar out on lemongrass roots. Smudged acid. As ever, it works fairly dry. Sculpted. Teased with potpourri. Seashell. Lemon peel. If this wine is developing in a linear way, it makes sense to aim the bulk of the inventory for depletion before 2026. Still, we're a long way ahead of V₁.

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  12/17/2022 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 92 Points

  1/12. 10% abv. AP 03. A fitting item in the series called Im Pfarrgarten. I've known it, from 2014 on, to express a fertile scree, exotic character. Think: psychedelic, grave Piesporter. Red delicious apples. Cassis. Salted limes. Rose. Tangerine peel. Ruby grapefruit seed. In 2021 we have a decisive core of skeletal stone that supports typical gestures of perfume and gravelly fat. A dry drink. Suggestively bitter. Precisely and tightly spooled botanical threads promise a decade of entertaining exposition from this case, and ready for BTG lists now.

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  6/11/2022 - scyrene wrote: 85 Points

  Pale lemon colour. Light citrus aroma, a little apple and pear. Plenty of spritz on the tongue, high acidity, juicy and tangy. Quite straightforward and less sweet than expected, faintest bitterness on the finish. Compared to a riesling Feinherb of the same vintage from a cheap supermarket, this is definitely better, though perhaps not worth the more than threefold markup, and is pushing the limit of what I want to pay, given its lack of varietal character. Drinks well all the same. [Screwcap; % abv; Drinkmonger Edinburgh, ~£16].

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