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The December 2022 Auction: Part 4
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"The 2004 Gimmeldinger Mandelgarten Riesling Spatlese exhibits a lovely citrus and herb aroma, augmented by wafting esters for which I find no name. The palate suggests lemon cream character, along with accents of flowers and herbs, and deep malty, roasted root vegetable, and fruit pit low tones. As one works this around in the mouth, the whirl of intense, mysterious esters seems to place the taster in the center of a vortex. Herbal, citrus and floral top notes, honey, plummy pit fruit, deep nuttiness, and roasted rich vegetable tones combine for a still mysterious, organ chord of a finish. That this is truly a wine to meditate on, will not, I hope, discourage owners from taking it through some paces at the dinner table. And in the cellar? I would have absolutely no fear before it reaches the traditional American age of majority. Your problem will be seeing to it that there is still some left!"
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"The 2004 Gimmeldinger Mandelgarten Riesling Spatlese exhibits a lovely citrus and herb aroma, augmented by wafting esters for which I find no name. The palate suggests lemon cream character, along with accents of flowers and herbs, and deep malty, roasted root vegetable, and fruit pit low tones. As one works this around in the mouth, the whirl of intense, mysterious esters seems to place the taster in the center of a vortex. Herbal, citrus and floral top notes, honey, plummy pit fruit, deep nuttiness, and roasted rich vegetable tones combine for a still mysterious, organ chord of a finish. That this is truly a wine to meditate on, will not, I hope, discourage owners from taking it through some paces at the dinner table. And in the cellar? I would have absolutely no fear before it reaches the traditional American age of majority. Your problem will be seeing to it that there is still some left!"
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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 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.