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95 JG.
"I drank this beautiful wine with a small group of people who had gotten together a couple of days earlier and drank the 2001 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese from Manfred Prüm, so all they could keep saying about the Zeltinger version was “it’s not quite up to the quality level of the Wehlener!” Happily (at least for my appreciation of this wine), I had not been among the crowd a couple of days earlier, so I was able to savor this bottle in all of its glory. The bouquet is deep, complex and very classy, offering up scents of apricot, peach-stone, mirabelle, heather, a dollop of honeycomb, a beautiful base of slate (just starting to turn salty) and a topnote of citrus peel. On the palate the wine is vibrant, fullish and beautifully delineated, with a fine core, excellent mineral drive and grip, superb acidity and lightness of step and a long, complex finish that is just starting to turn drier in profile, so that the residual sweetness in this wine today is more like a young Spätlese. This is a beautiful wine." John Gilman, View From the Cellar #94, Jul 2021 |