TN: 2019 Weingut Max Ferd. Richter Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese

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2019 Weingut Max Ferd. Richter Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese - Germany, Mosel Saar Ruwer (9/9/2022)
Ten pounds of wine in a five pound bottle, and ten pounds of sugar in a five pound bag. It’s a huge Spätlese, and really sweet. Needs decades to come into its own. If you have more (I do not) please bury it in a cave, and let your heirs unearth it after the apocalypse. It will survive, and be even better after the zombies have had their dominion and been subsequently defeated.

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A whole crowd of people wants to know if there’s peach or not man.

Also, *descendants

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Duh! My bad. Happy hour was extra happy today. Trying to forget the week.

And peach? Not really more like crystallized pineapple.

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It sucks to be 73.

One wonders how many bottles will survive a couple of decades.

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Mr Morris May quibble, but I know pretry well what the wine is from this.
(Plus the crystallised pineapple someone contributed)

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Guess I’ll open my next bottle when I retire then.

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Sounds like you feel Richter did the vineyard right here, albeit in large-scaled package. Thanks for the note, David.

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I would say so, but this wine should have been labeled as Auslese.

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I felt much the same regarding the 2012 Auslese.

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Opened their 2019 Graacher Himmelreich KABINETT tonight… and it also might as well be a (mini) auslese.

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The Richter wines are sensational with age.

A local shop used to carry aged releases from the winery. The cork tops would be black with mold, but the wines were perfect like honeydew nectar.

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