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The March 2017 Internet-Only Auction Part 3
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Estimate: $180
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"'This is sort of a middle thing between SpĂ€tlese and Auslese, with a few raisined berries and botrytis included,' explains Willi Schaefer of his 2011 Graacher Domprobst Riesling SpĂ€tlese #5. 'In most years, we would have bottled this as an Auslese, but we had quite a few of those already this year.' Apple fruit shades more into jellied quince here, engendering a honeyed cast which â like its sense of nut paste â is perfectly complemented by this wineâs creamy texture. Yet at the same time there is genuine transparency, including of a headily floral, pungently black tea-like, and stony, crystalline mineral sort. The crustacean-like alliance of sweetness and salinity in the finish here sets my salivary glands pumping uncontrollably and the torrent of juiciness, liquid perfume, and kaleidoscopic shimmering stoniness serve for excitement apt to last a quarter century or more."
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"'This is sort of a middle thing between SpĂ€tlese and Auslese, with a few raisined berries and botrytis included,' explains Willi Schaefer of his 2011 Graacher Domprobst Riesling SpĂ€tlese #5. 'In most years, we would have bottled this as an Auslese, but we had quite a few of those already this year.' Apple fruit shades more into jellied quince here, engendering a honeyed cast which â like its sense of nut paste â is perfectly complemented by this wineâs creamy texture. Yet at the same time there is genuine transparency, including of a headily floral, pungently black tea-like, and stony, crystalline mineral sort. The crustacean-like alliance of sweetness and salinity in the finish here sets my salivary glands pumping uncontrollably and the torrent of juiciness, liquid perfume, and kaleidoscopic shimmering stoniness serve for excitement apt to last a quarter century or more."
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The spiritual home of Riesling, producing wines of piercing acidity, precision and longevity across a spectrum from bone-dry to lusciously sweet. Cool, steep-sloped vineyards along the Mosel and Rhine yield some of the world's most delicate, long-lived whites.
Germany's most celebrated Riesling region, its steep slate slopes above the river yielding featherlight, low-alcohol wines of electric acidity, delicacy and extraordinary longevity.
The appellation for Germany's most celebrated Riesling, its steep slate slopes yielding light, low-alcohol wines of electric acidity and extraordinary longevity.
A highly aromatic white of piercing acidity and transparency to terroir, ranging from bone-dry to lusciously sweet. It ages remarkably and is the noble grape of Germany and Alsace.