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1994 Fritz Haag Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel Auction #22
5/6/2024 - Tubulus wrote:
My last bottle of this, a wine that barely exists. Bought from the Rudi Wiest action. The fine folks at MFW didn't even have any information on this release, which carried a sticker from the 1999 VDP auction. How many bottles could there have been? This was a magnum, a big, sticky, leaky magnum, with the cork pushed 1/2 a cm out and nearly disintegrating. The color poured basically salmon, the color of a rose champagne perhaps. At first slightly flabby, back on the ice for a few more minutes, and then boom goes the dynamite. It was a long night with many bottles opened so a detailed description is a bit tough, but one sip of this and it's quickly obvious that this is a special wine. A huge wine that explodes in the glass, still very sweet, tons of nectarine, with a spine of acidity that provides a shot to the palate at the end of a long night. It's certainly aged but no hint of decline despite the obvious wear and tear of the bottle. Riesling is immortal!
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2019 Beta Cabernet Sauvignon Lupina
4/29/2024 - Tubulus wrote:
Folks who visited seemed to think this was the most wide open of the 2019s, so I figured I'd give it a go. Well, they were correct, and this wine is really lovely and wide open at this juncture. There is a plenty of tannic backbone so I would have no issue aging for 5-10 years, but drinking really nicely now. It has much less green than the last few Betas I've had (admittedly all much older releases...have put most into deep storage), with nice medium weight fruit, good but not overwhelming acidity, no notable alcohol. Really just a delicious wine.
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2019 Monthélie-Douhairet-Porcheret Volnay 1er Cru Champans
4/8/2024 - Tubulus wrote:
Wonderful spicy burg nose. Palate is fairly ripe but with enough acidity to balance it out.
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