German Catalog 2006 USE THIS ONE.qxp - Michael Skurnik Wines

GDD-023 2005 Ruppertsberger Reiterpfad Riesling Kabinett
This is a little more curtailed and less detailed than the Forst-Deidesheim wines, but
has a more smoky, fatty attack; more eclaire and less powdered rock though there’s
plenty of minerality; it’s a virtually perfect food-Riesling.
SOMMELIER ALERT! SOS: 1 (5-16 years)
GDD-015 2004 Scheurebe Kabinett +
How would this taste after that Scheu-scented Riesling? Incredibly, it tastes more like
Riesling than the Riesling does! Grilled fennel, kiwi and hyssop; the palate shows the
mineral intricacy of Riesling with a haunting and classy overtone of lavender. The 2004
length goes without saying.
SOS: 2 (now to seven years)
SOMMELIER ALERT!
GDD-024 2005 Deidesheimer Kalkofen Riesling Spätlese +
Tremendous torque and grip, with adamant mid-palate concentration and mineral;
fruit-cocktail, sweet corn, lemon blossom fragrances; palate is full of talc and density
and refined fruit; this is from special land, and shows it.
SOS: 2 (8-23 years)
GDD-008 2001 Deidesheimer Grainhübel Riesling Auslese +
Extravagant complex aroma; sweet clay, kirsch, oat bread, brown sugar; a masculine
Vendage Tardive style; determinedly, resplendently serious wine; endlessly filigree and
subtle.
SOS: 3
GDD-017 2004 Deidesheimer Grainhübel Riesling Auslese ++
Yikes Mikes! This is superb; again a pink-grapefruit fragrance with quetsch; the palate
is an out-of-control riot of saltiness and yowling-ripe fruit; perfect clean botrytis, and
shock-and-awe power—but all of it with class and verve, and a sweet note of Mt.
Rainier cherries at the endless end.
SOS: 3 (between eight and twenty-five years)
GDD-025 2002 Deidesheimer Herrgottsacker Riesling Eiswein ++
GDD-025H 2002 Deidesheimer Herrgottsacker Riesling Eiswein, 12/375ml ++
With the paucity of Eiswein from `05 I thought to revisit earlier vintages, and this
FIRST OFFERING is miraculous, as refined (and drinkable) a honey as you could ever
imagine; full of thyme-blossom and linden flowers, it’s regal and still completely exquisite,
with the 2002 quetsch reaching sublime heights.
SOS: 4 (12-28 years)
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