Weingut Riehen
Weingut Riehen
Le Cidre Late Disgorged
Late-disgorged sparkling apple cider from the old Basel style, 6.8% alcohol. My God, this is fine. The mousse is on the level of elite Champagne: creamy, precise, persistent and unbelievably elegant. Unreal apple flavors, but also real balance, purity and depth. The late disgorgement gives it a deeper bass note than the regular cuvée, while keeping the wine lifted, fresh and crystalline. Krug with apples. Remarkable. @Delectable Wine this is the “Late Disgorged.” — 4 months ago
Weingut Riehen
Le Cidre - Riechner Epfel Basel-Stadt 2018
The nose is just the most incredible thing and if the palate wasn’t so delicious I’d be smelling this cider till the pigs come home. It’s smokey. But smokey in a smoked applewood type of way. It’s got green apple, red apple, and the aromas are mostly green and red apple skins and not the flesh. It’s not floral but has that same floral effect a floral red or white wine has in that it’s expansive and has a bouquet but these “floral” aromas are more like leaves. Fresh, gorgeous leaves. It’s so uncanny how complex this nose is. The nose also has hickory and iodine and I yelled out “This!! This is what would happen if you made Puligny Montrachet from apples!” I was so proud of myself. It’s got that Puligny iodine, sweet hazelnut thing and a kind of florality from the combo of apple skins and leaves. It’s just insane. After maybe 25-45 minutes of air this develops some quince, apricots and spice aromas that only add to the allure.
The palate is so juicy. I mean this is juicy and delicious like nothing else. It’s so explosive and just bursting with the purest green and red apple flavors one can imagine. It’s absurd. Nearly religious experience as you cannot comprehend how apples can be fermented into something that is at once contemplative and also insanely delicious. It’s delicious like ice cream you cannot stop eating. There are few wines like this and even fewer beverages. It’s so pure and so refined with just incredible finesse. The palate has these amazing candied apples that I have never experienced before in my life. These candied apples in this cider have to be tasted to be believed. There are also flavors of brioche and sourdough bread. There is a hint of sweetness but it’s like the sweetness one gets when one bites into a ripe, juicy perfect mid season apple. This is so so juicy and so clean. I mean this is as clean as any beverage I have ever had. The finish goes on forever and ever and finished with spice, complexity, green apple skins, green leaves, hazelnuts and iodine. This is absolutely bonkers cider — 2 years ago
Jost & Ziereisen
Le Petit Weissburgunder 2015
Weissburgunder — 8 years ago
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Le Petit Pinot Noir 2021
Absolutely phenomenal. Black raspberry, black cherry, white tea, flowers, some red currant. Stellar aromas. Unique. The palate is teeming with energy. Juicy, and slathering minerals. Velvety tannins but also substantial. This needs to flesh out but the underlying everything is brilliant. After 19 hours open the nose is softer and more expressive. Really a lipstick like intensity and just evolved so much overnight. Loads of Alpine spices. Palate is so round now but still has that energy and that barely there sweetness. Juicy and clean. Wonderful. 9.4 to 9.5. — 8 months ago
Weingut Riehen
Le Voisin Blaufränkisch 2019
Deep nose with spice and dark flowers. Ripe and deep with insane spices and florals all over the palate that is so clear. So deep and juicy with cola inner mouth aromas and flavors of saturated fruit skins. So looooong. Just stunning. — 2 years ago
Weingut Riehen
Le Grand Pinot Noir 2016
One of the best Swiss Pinot Noirs. Just a stunning stunning example. Nose is all woodland berries, mountain spice, insane florals and sweet herbals and unreal mountain cherry. So alpine and floral. Captivating and enveloping aromas. Plum skin as well that is so so fine. Stunning purity, breadth and detail the nose. Enchanted forest floor aromas. Keeps changing and changing. Just stunning. 9.6 or 9.7 on the nose. Smell like Grand Cru Burgundy. ZOMG the palate. Insane fruit and sweetness. So sweet and so intense. Wow. Mid to late season red and black cherries. Just so elegant and pure. Suave and chewy but silken tannins and impossible length. Just sickness. So long. Endless. Sappy and noble. There is a very serious and substantial structure here. This is truly amazing wine. Better than the 15. Needs air and I’ll be back. 9.6 for now.
After air the texture on this is truly stunning. So velvety. Amazing sweetened and no hard edges. Nose has so much Burgundian sous bous now and really is in Clos Vougeot territory. Brilliant. An elite wine. This is very close to a 9.7 but not quite. Only age is holding it back now. — 6 years ago
Weingut Riehen
Le Grand Sauvignon Blanc 2017
Matthew Cohen
Oop. Ignore the following needs a 45 minute decant.
Nose: not much golden raisins ??
Palate: delicious. Old. Rich.
I’m pretty sure this is “drink em if ya got em “.
Fass selections — a month ago