Scott Kieser

Joh. Jos. Prüm

Bernkasteler Badstube Kabinett Riesling 2020

8.0

Not really feeling this. Love the beautiful, pure fruit and the Prum lightness, but it’s almost cloying with low acid and a clipped finish. — 2 days ago

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Brauneberger Juffer Auslese Riesling

Scott Kieser

I have only three bottles; I opened this with great trepidation, thinking the odds were high it would be shut down. Nope. This is open for business and incredibly intense.

I had this bottling once before. The 1992 vintage in 2010. Neither I nor the retailer had ever heard of the estate. It was ultimately the best wine I had ever tasted, and it remains my benchmark for fine wine today. I have thought about that bottle every day since. While this bottle didn’t achieve the same heights, I travelled back in time with the first sip. It has the same full throttle intensity with paradoxical elegance. It posses the same weightless density, the same salty mineral depth, the same electricity on the finish, the same silkiness, the same well-mannered explosiveness, and the same ability to furlough me from my perpetual stoicism. This is, of course, a young wine and has a lot of baby fat - delicious, apricot flavored adiposity - and needs time for the sugar to integrate. (The 1992 tasted completely dry. No idea if this dries out to the same extent). While this will certainly evolve and improve for some time, I not only have no regrets about trying this early, I adore this youthfully exuberant phase. I’ll probably open another soon to enjoy with duck. @Lyle Fass — 2 days ago

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Lyle Fass

Great note Scott! You need to email me to see if I have any of the 23 Piesporter Goldtropfchen Auslese Limited Edition left. It’s one of the best sweet wines Stefan has ever made. Back in 1992 Gunther, his father made this wine and the climate was different then and achieving high ripeness was not guaranteed. 92 was a rainy but ok vintage as well. But Riesling can do amazing things!

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Brauneberger Juffer Auslese Riesling

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Günther Steinmetz

Piesporter Domherr kabinett Riesling

Scott Kieser

9.7

First time with this bottling and I have deep regrets about buying only four bottles. The acidity is extreme. It swallows the residual sugar, leaving just a hint of sweetness, though the sugar makes the fruit burst on the palate and gives the wine density. Shockingly concentrated and intense with salty, mineral depth and a very long finish. This is closer to a generous Grosses Gewachs than my conception of a Kabinett. Thrilling wine! @Lyle Fass is this typical or an anomaly of the vintage? More importantly, do you have anything like this to sell me? — 16 days ago

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Lyle Fass

Great note! Sadly 21 is an anomaly with huge acid and higher ripeness. Like 2010 I would say. I’ve got some 23’s that come close. Especially Goldtropfchen. Email me!

Scott Kieser

Email sent. Thanks!