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In a truly incredible stroke of luck, 3x Julian Haart 2014 schubertslay spatlese and 3 x Julian Haart 2015 Goldtropfchen Kabinett. Nice. When the lease shifted to Keller I bought up 30 bottles of Schubertslay Spatlese 2016! :D Where do you find all these treasures Russell?... Howard Ripley at the t...

Howard Ripley at the time. Happy to bring a bottle for you next lunch we share!

A.Gillette wrote: ↑
July 4th, 2020, 6:42 am
In a truly incredible stroke of luck, 3x Julian Haart 2014 schubertslay spatlese and 3 x Julian Haart 2015 Goldtropfchen Kabinett.

Nice. When the lease shifted to Keller I bought up 30 bottles of Schubertslay Spatlese 2016!

11 is good!

I am pretty sure the Guinaudeau’s aren’t struggling to get by, of course that’s not true for a great many in Bordeaux who end up selling in supermarkets at 3.50-5 euros a bottle making decent drinkable wine.

Several already posted here and on wine pages. In short they are both excellent! I’ve tried quite a few Falkenstein and the MFW stars #11 and #14 really sang. Julian Haart also excellent across the board. I haven’t opened the WO Alte Reben that just arrived yet, not the Concept Riesling special Alte...

I’ve already opened about 40 bottles so far. Mostly Kabinett from Haart, Bollig, Schaefer, Keller, MF Richter, Falkenstein, Quint. I’m a fan.

I put in German to get my denominator, and they German Kabinett, German Spatlese, etc., etc., to get my numerators. When I put in trocken for trockenbeerenauslese, I was surprised to find that I have one trocken wine. Yes the challenge is Auslese as it blends Auslese, GK, BA and TBA, but also thing...

The 2019 Euchariusberg Spätlese AP 14 comes from an old-vine parcel nicknamed Ternes. Despite the very low yields, it was enough for one cask. This Spätlese had only 88 degrees Oechsle, so it's lighter than a lot of so-called Kabinetts from the same vintage. I'm really glad you like it. Lars, I'm c...

What’s the easiest way to check in CellarTracker. By designation is nuts, 127 different designations. I literally just filtered my collection to just the riesling varietal and used an Excel spreadsheet to figure it out. I put in German to get my denominator, and they German Kabinett, German Spatles...

Ok, it’s messy since for example a search for Auslese will include BA. And it doesn’t account for bottle sizes. Kabinett - 32% and increasing Spatlese - 34% Auslese + - 26% (of which GK - 14%, BA - 3%, TBA - 0.5%) GG - 8% Producers Prum - 20% Schaefer 16% Fritz Haag - 13% Julian Haart - 12% Grunhaus...

What’s the easiest way to check in CellarTracker.

By designation is nuts, 127 different designations.

Well I live in Bordeaux...

If not here probably the Mosel.

Brian S t o t t e r wrote: ↑
June 14th, 2020, 7:43 am

Russell Faulkner wrote: ↑
June 14th, 2020, 7:20 am
I seem to have already ended up with 19 bottles of a 2019 Falkenstein Spatlese!
Which one? There are too many good bottles. I had to be "choosy" with my 2019 offer and limited to 6 bottles for the ones I really wanted.

AP14. Opened a bottle this week. Electric.

I seem to have already ended up with 19 bottles of a 2019 Falkenstein Spatlese!

Finally got around to opening some of Jonas Dostert’s range of wine. 6A22BEF3-A08D-4A75-B58F-DB6080CC11CB.jpeg Jonas is in the Obermosel near Luxembourg, young guy farming organically with low intervention and sulphur. Mosel Fine Wines featured them him recently and I got a mixed dozen delivered. A ...

Well mostly Champagne actually. But four of those are Bordeaux (2006 Trotanoy..).

27 wines with 13 or more bottles.

European stock is crap too.

If you had good bottles you were lucky, it wasn’t provenance.

It’s not just the US. 2001 has been pretty disastrous at Loosen. Indeed that whole period.

I think he makes everything. In a fashion.

Thomas Keim wrote: ↑
May 26th, 2020, 7:21 am
Maximin Grunhaus. -

The old one!

I’ve been drinking quite a few already (Julian Haart, Keller Limestone, Bollig, Stefan Miller and Quint - Falkenstein have arrived but I am yet to open one). I am impressed so far, for sure it’s at least a very good vintage but you don’t drink vintages...

I will probably buy more than I plan to.

All of those were served for aperitif. (The moscato was junk so I had to mix it with vermouth)

I think I opened three Auslesen (97 Grunhaus, 16 Spater-Veit and 19 Bollig) and a Moscato this month.

That’s about normal for us.

When you say ‘a lot’ how many do you mean if you’ve never owned one?

I don’t think 2001 was that strong chez Schaefer. If that saves you any money.

Yes me too. Perhaps leased in advance of purchase.

Brian, I’ve had a few glasses over the last years. The GGs are super popular in Berlin.

But the Auction Kabinett in 2018 was lovely and really turned my eye again. Happy to have six of those, though it’s really a Spatlese I suppose.

This is an estate very much back on my radar after a bit of a gap.

Can’t believe no one mentioned Weins-Prum. Until recently the best producer of WS wines not named Prum. I don’t care as much for the style, maybe the very sweet wines excepted. WS production was so much lower than JJ Prum. (Also in my case they aren’t imported to the U.K.). What I meant about not a...

I think it’s critical to not look at the Mosel from a Burgundian viewpoint. It just doesn’t work the same way.

It’s a big vineyard (40Ha) and quite varied (South and Southwest facing) with 85m between the top and bottom vines. As implied above you can’t expect the same things from very small holdings (Schaefer is 0.2Ha). The only producer I have in any quantity apart from Prum is Lieser and Max Ferd Richter,...

Just prick it a lot with a fork before, and cook it super hot. Keep an eye on it as it cooks as if it ‘puffs’ too much all the topping falls off (prick with a knife if it does).

We’ve found that ‘pate feuilette’ (puff pastry) is better than most gf pizza doughs. So we buy from the supermarket and just add our own sauce. Usually once a week. For pasta normally Barilla. The problem with most gf bread is just that they are long life. E.Leclerq do a really good dark country bre...

You just have to buy a load of stuff you don’t want to get it.

Most things you can buy if you have the $. So I’d say a couple of harder to find things.

Wilhelm Haag era Fritz Haag
Keller and Julian Haart Schubertslay, Lieser Dr and Weiser-Künstler EE (Kabis)

Name some names.

I have a wine insta, a bike one and don't use it for 'personal/family' stuff.

The wines are good. But the reason is mostly fair value and availability of old vintages.

I’d take Weisser-Künstler 50m down the street in most circumstances.

Julian, three bottles just arrived. I’ll report back.

No mention of L'Austral?

Tomás, since you live in the EU, probably the best way to proceed is to start buying stuff from internet shops. The prices are often very reasonable compared to imported wines and buying 12-18 bottles at a time keeps the delivery costs per bottle pretty low. Do you have know any local people who sh...

Hard to find. Sure, well it’s a major hobby of mine, and I find plenty.

Yes. I am a consumer.

One arrived today!

This is from Max Kilburg. My Prum ones aren’t here.

Yes! Quite.

Yeah, I still don’t get it. Seems to imply that all grapes are picked equally and it’s just the stage fermentation is stopped that makes the finished wine. Even Feinherb alone doesn’t tell me a huge amount (Kabi, Spatlese, Auslese Feinherb - in old language) the residual sugar level might be 10-20 b...

And I have 18 bottle cases from Prum!

18 bottle boxes are quite common in Germany.

I was tempted to post my Prum cellar, but it would either look like bragging or hoarding.

I’m still struggling a bit with “grosses gewächs made in the feinherb style”.

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