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The March 2018 Internet-Only Auction Part 1
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Estimate: $400
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"Harvested at the end of October and of the Messmers’ harvest for this vintage – and just a day after the corresponding Spatlese – a 2008 Burrweiler Altenforst Rieslaner Auslese offers aromatic intensity of pineapple, mango, banana, and brown spices; a sumptuous, creamy soothing, glyceral-rich, and sweetly tropically-fruited, gaudy palate; and the buoyancy and levity that mark the best wines of its vintage. Outrageous ripeness in any context – not to mention that of vintage 2008 – is allied to sheer elegance. (I struggled without success to find a less nebulous, more concrete way to put the matter.) This will be worth following for two or more decades, but there is no need to forego the pleasure . . ."
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"Harvested at the end of October and of the Messmers’ harvest for this vintage – and just a day after the corresponding Spatlese – a 2008 Burrweiler Altenforst Rieslaner Auslese offers aromatic intensity of pineapple, mango, banana, and brown spices; a sumptuous, creamy soothing, glyceral-rich, and sweetly tropically-fruited, gaudy palate; and the buoyancy and levity that mark the best wines of its vintage. Outrageous ripeness in any context – not to mention that of vintage 2008 – is allied to sheer elegance. (I struggled without success to find a less nebulous, more concrete way to put the matter.) This will be worth following for two or more decades, but there is no need to forego the pleasure . . ."
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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.