VINTAGE SPECIFIC Wined You've Bought (Fairly Recently) in Industrial Quantities at Close to Regular Pricing

[Sarah_Kirschbaum]

I wanted to like it more than I did. Was wound up super tight, surprise, and took a lot of coaxing to get at anything underneath, just seemed overly lean even at its tender age. I thought there would be more size to the core of fruit than their was. May have caught it at a bad time but I passed based on that tasting. Will probably regret it in 10 years. If you have two cases you should pop a cork and see what you think.

That makes perfect sense to me. For example, the 2011 Cuvee Bernardo was tight and unpleasant for the first few years. Now it is fantastic. I’m not worried about the '18. I’ll post a note when we try it, but it could be a while. I have no problem tasting a wine young, but maybe not that young! I treat these like barolo, and don’t bother them for a number of years.

[Brian_S_t_o_t_t_e_r]

I don’t buy this way - I’ve figured out that what I like in my drinking is variety, so buy to match that. The closest I’ve come is 2019 Willi Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Kabinett, bought just over a case. Yum.

But - if I could find it, I’d be delighted to buy multiple cases of Falkenstein Spatlese Feinherb (yes, there are many, but I like them all).

Shouldn’t be too hard to cobble together several cases of some of them if you shop broadly. For the 2020 vintage, several retailers I buy from had gotten 5-6 cases of Onkel Peter and Meyer Nepal. Palm was slim pickings everywhere.