2006 Karlsmühle Kaseler Nies’chen Riesling Kabinett
Considerable extract is apparent in the slightly darker yellow hue. Normally I would guess on appearance that this is a wine with a few more years under its stelvin cap, or a wine that tips out at Spätlese (being an ’06 it undoubtedly is at least that), but there are no signs of age on the nose, and 2006 was anything but normal. The wine is quite ripe and ready with none of the delicate or noncommittal nature which often tells of Kabinett. Tangerine, apricot marmelade, gingerbread and pine resin spice play with a flash of silvery spoon mineral. It is delicious in its enthusiasm if not its typicity. It would be a very good match for poultry done up North African style with dried fruit, turmeric and saffron. 8,5% alc.
2007 A.J. Adam Riesling Kabinett
This is in a very good place right now showing almost textbook Mosel Kabinett weight and intensity (these days.) A medley of pear fruit, basil creme, and slate reverb in without going all Spätlese on you (like does the Adam '06 kabinett.)
8% alc.
2007 Kloster Eberbach Steinberger Riesling Spätlese
Closed at first, until a delicate yet exquisite nose of peaches and cream, almond paste, vanilla, elderflowers, and a sort of humid misty fragrance of sweating rock reluctantly emerge and they are piled-up on the backswing even then, hinting that much more will be revealed later. The texture is now rather expansive (inhale), but acids ebb and flow throughout the creaminess and remain taut. I have been impressed as of late with the re-emergence of Eberbach and hold out a lot of hope for this ’07 vintage there. 8% alc
-BH
