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The February 2019 Distinguished Cellar Auction, Part I
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Estimate: $35
Lightly damp stained label.
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"The 2007 Hattenheimer Pfaffenberg Riesling SpÀtlese #22 Pfaffenberger bears a strikingly simple antique (officially back) label that Schönborn revived a decade or so ago and that bears the prominent legend Pfaffenberger. The analysis of gross chemistry here is virtually identical to the #6, but their personalities are strikingly different. What's more, this was picked four weeks later - a demonstration that what changed with hang time this vintage was not always measurable. It gives up no sappy brightness to its near-twin, but displays an intriguing additional depth of musk, meat stock, malt, and nut oils, the whole drenched in honey yet not overly sweet, with tart fruit skin, citrus, fruit pit bitterness, and mineral salts all adding contrast in the long, multifaceted finish. Here is a Rheingau classic that should dazzle for three decades."
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"The 2007 Hattenheimer Pfaffenberg Riesling SpÀtlese #22 Pfaffenberger bears a strikingly simple antique (officially back) label that Schönborn revived a decade or so ago and that bears the prominent legend Pfaffenberger. The analysis of gross chemistry here is virtually identical to the #6, but their personalities are strikingly different. What's more, this was picked four weeks later - a demonstration that what changed with hang time this vintage was not always measurable. It gives up no sappy brightness to its near-twin, but displays an intriguing additional depth of musk, meat stock, malt, and nut oils, the whole drenched in honey yet not overly sweet, with tart fruit skin, citrus, fruit pit bitterness, and mineral salts all adding contrast in the long, multifaceted finish. Here is a Rheingau classic that should dazzle for three decades."
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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.
A historic Riesling region along the Rhine, producing racier, often drier wines of structure and mineral depth from south-facing slopes.
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.