2021 Julian Haart Riesling Moselle

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 93 points

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  4/17/2024 - JohnMcIlwain Likes this wine:

  I’d call this off-dry/Feinherb at 11.5% on the label. White flowers, just ripe stone fruit, hints of honeysuckle, and sorrel on the nose. The palate shows some ripeness, even richness on the attack—isn’t this the classic cold climate underripe vintage the we all clamor for? Is this Hengst or Brand? But surely enough a thread of salty bitterness and stony core emerges from within. A pithy, flinty definition begins to reveal its agenda and there’s fruit here, but it’s peeking from behind mother’s apron. Pretty shut down at the moment and a bit of a decant slams the gates. Hold for a couple years. There’s a shocking amount of material here that just needs to organize itself.

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  4/12/2023 - viniferatu Likes this wine:

  Beautiful stuff. This is not quite trocken, but it is so very close, this really shows off what makes Mosel wine so special, it plays with so many delicate flavors, and the merest hint of sweetness against intense acidity and minerality. Aromas of apple, white grapefruit, so many leafy and herbal notes, a little yeast and smoke. On the palate it is juicy and full of life, intense stony notes meld with myriad subtle green tones, crunchy apple and fresh citrus reverberate in the fray. This is so easy and fresh. I would drink it in the next few years, i think, but who knows...

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  2/28/2023 - chatters wrote:

  Cru Wines Trade Tasting (Bentley Bar & Restaurant, Sydney): Slight green apple, chalky minerality, simple nose. Medium plus intensity acidity, crunchy green apple and pear, textured burr. Again quite simple but okay.

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  10/15/2022 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Feinherb. 11.5% abv. AP 02. Aromatic at arm's length. A cataclysm of apricot, almond, tangerine, chamomile, and molten salt. Senses adjust and elucidate delicate threads, of lemon zest, basil, chalk, green strawberry, and mirabelle plum. A mouthful begins broadly glycerin, before a campaign of systemic acidity seizes control of the event. Sharpness closes from all sides, seeping from the pores of its mineral fabric, roasted and hissing. Some of this energy is a blur of action; some is fluid as glass block. Pull away to admire the composure. Blanched bedrock extract. Amusing bud break, mocking iron truffle. Brittle to chew (al dente.) Perfumed of savory, scrabbled earth. Needs time. Drink 2024-2034.
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  9/18/2022 - geoffreychambertin Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Intense stone fruit and citrus aromatics, medium body, medium plus acidity. Stunning value.

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