WTN: Karls Reiner

[David M. Bueker]

• 1997 Weingut Karlsmühle Lorenzhöfer Riesling Auslese - Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer (12/18/2024)
  My final bottle and it’s still insanely youthful. I asked my wife how old she thought the wine was (she had not seen the bottle), and she said “maybe 5 or 6 years old?” Blind I might have thought the same thing. There’s so much bright fruit, and a complete lack of any honeyed, developed tones, that it really does seem like a young wine. Sweet, but not cloying, it’s in that “drinking Auslese” range, likely due to 27 years of bottle age blunting the originally significant sweetness. Definitely one of those “wish I had bought a case” wines.

[Jenise]

Great title.

[David M. Bueker]

Better wine!