romo

9.4

Last night’s Merk nightcap a success. — 2 months ago

Jakub Kalinowski

9.1

Interesting to observe how the style of this flagship cuvée has shifted over the years, dialing back the oak, picking earlier, focusing on purity and sense of place.
Dark & slightly brooding on the nose with plum & hint of black cure leaf, freshly turned earth. A tiny pinch of spices, the wood not evident at all. Fresh & pure.
On the palate this is so juicy, medium tannin with just a tiny bite, filled with fresh damson plums and a hint of black currant. Juicy acidity, and nice length with an earthy finish. 14% alc, as in prev vintages, but this time unnoticeable. Nice depth and purity here.
This is a lovely wine, with juicy fruit and a savoury edge. Brilliant food companion.
Delish!

— 6 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

Outrageous showing. So precise, elegant, dense and lean, yet with the perfect hit of fleshiness. So clean, like rainwater. Nose is so airy, mineral and nutty. This wine is teeming with energy and such nice richness to offset it. A delight. Amazing texture and mouthfeel. Just brilliant. — 8 months ago

Thien Bui

9.0

Honey and spices we’ll made — a year ago

John Willison

9.0

Yellow and green. Clean with good minerality. — 4 years ago

Jonas Palmqvist

9.1

Savoury nose. Quite light, but very well balanced acidity and great length. — 6 years ago

Bonnie Chu

9.0

Super peachy upfront, less ripe on the palate. Crisp with lots of minerally stone fruit. $27 with shrimp, asparagus, and artichoke spring risotto — 7 years ago

Francesco Schincaglia

9.6

1966
Unbelievable!!! — 6 months ago

Doug Powers

9.2

OK, opened one of these maybe one month ago or so, and it clearly had a compromised cork. I had purchased a box on release on a recommendation of a winemaker friend who was also the owner of my then-wine storage facility in Napa, IIRC the case cost maybe $120-135 or so. That compromised bottle was first one opened, but I had a gut feeling from tasting that prior bottle that another bottle with good cork would be rocking, and this one is, color suggests age, but super fresh, just off-dry fruit (so will pair beautifully with some tiramisu my wife made), great acidity and cut, lovely aged Mosel Riesling (a Terry Thiese Selection)!! — 6 months ago

with Jim

Peter van den Besselaar

9.6

Vintage 1976 | Kinheimer Rosenberg Beerenauslese | the summum Riesling can grow to. Apricot smell, nectar taste with awesome balance. No sign whatever of fatigue, at 49 years 🥰 . Certainly one of the great wines of the world. Paired with foie gras. — a year ago

with Eric

Todd Scurci

9.0

#zweigelt — 3 years ago

with Annie

David Kaplan

9.2

“In the glass, the wine has a beautiful, limpid yellow gold color. Aromas of Cavaillon melons, lemon oil, macadamia, and crystallized honey, along with more fleeting suggestions of bergamot, orange blossoms, and dried figs move in and out of the foreground as the nose evolves in the glass. On the palate, the wine is dry, sumptuous, and harmonious, with layered flavors that echo the nose, all seasoned with the exotic saline minerality that is characteristic of Maxime’s brilliant 2018 vintage.” — Moore Brothers Wine Co. — 6 years ago

"Odedi"

9.3

This is a wonderful aged Riesling from Germany. Showing great complexity and mouthfeel. Light and buttery at the same time.

Off dry on the palate with citrus, lemons, diesel, tropical fruits, minerals, white pepper, sea salt, mangoes and pineapples.

Needs 30 minutes to open up properly and bring out all that complexity on the nose.

This 41 year old is well balanced with nice acidity to balance out the sugars. Refreshing when properly chilled.

So delicious 😋

I paired it with some seafood appetizers, and especially loved it with the spicy Tuna.

9.5% alcohol by volume.

700ml bottle.

93 points. — 8 years ago

Doug Powers

9.3

Honey, floral, tiny bit of petrol, great balance, medium-rich, long, lingering finish, terrific Alsatian Riesling. — 6 months ago

with Jim

romo

9.4

Great Dane. Big but elegant. — 7 months ago

Erik Longabardi

9.5

So so good — a year ago

Daniel veit

9.0

Damn Delicious. — 2 years ago

romo

9.3

Smitten. 🤗 — 4 years ago

Austin Hohnke

8.9

Nice fruitiness and bit of residual sugar here at 9% Alc. Juicy with ripe citrus and stone fruit.
Just lacking some of the acidic tension and verve I crave. But for $12?!? What’s not to love about the undervaluation of German Riesling? — 7 years ago

Michael Falk

9.2

Lemon cest, dried apricots, pencil shaves, medium body, quite long saline finish... — 7 years ago