Last night’s lineup of the new and improved Bay Area Riesling Squad (aka BARS, previously known as the East Bay Riesling Squad):
My first (and definitely not my last!!) taste of a Schloss Johannisberg. So light and elegant. Wow. Terrific lineup overall. 
Last night we got to drink a whole passel of very fine Riesling! I really enjoyed the 2007 Schmitges Erdener Treppchen Spätlese ** and the subtle 2021 Keller Abst E Kabi. The 2023 Hexamer Porphyr came across really well, and the list goes on…
@MaciejK was so kind to gift me the best part of this bottle. My local Danish airport has a new scanner that allows for liquids carried through.
In the sky I was with this lovely glass — paper cup, but still, wow what a wine. Bright orchard fruit, even a tiny bit of red apple and just energy and minerality for days. Such a special wine, even served slightly too warm and from a cup. Fantastic
This will be a beast in 5-10 years.
I am in the Wachau and had rhis yesterday. Bought at Fohringer in Spitz. I am a fan of Alzinger, pretty focused and complex for a difficult vintage in the western Wachau. Well priced at 28 Euros.
Visited Loisium in Langenlois and bought a small stash of Heiligensteins to bring back to Norway. Lunched at Jameks and had a very good glass of one of their Federspiel Rieslings. Dining at Mathias Hirtzbergers Hofkellerei tonight, my third time there (19 - I still remember a superb 2001 Knoll GV Vinothekfullung, and 21). Extensive and well.priced wine list. Staying in Joching, very close to both restaurants. Currently grey, slightly cool and somewhat wet weather.
No winery visits, did Prager in 21. A long time favorite producer.
A superb Hohereck Smaragd at the Hofmeisterei Hirtzberger in Wøsendorf last night. 2021 was a great vintage in Austria, and this reminded me of a great Corton, minerally, intense and long, very precise with some chalkyness.
I liked this one too and the Hofmeisterei is also a great place 
Enjoy your time in this beautiful region!
Jin tasted me on these last night at Noreetuh after the burgundy we brought in. Never heard of producer - Lubentiushof - he only has a couple bottles. 2011s - lights out good
The Gans was a pretty remarkable dry Riesling
Really great wines. They were imported for a minute by Vom Boden during this period.
I am fortunate to have a bunch in the cellar. Have not had a recent one.
Lucky you- fantastic wines!
They have been on winebid over the years for $20-30!
Domaine Bohl Muenchberg 2020 - ripe fruity nose, leesy, a bit of funk, like a fruitier Julien Renard.
It says it all, but… would love to hear a bit more
It was like reading a Dostoevsky novel. Painful, arduous yet I kept going back to it over and over for small sips trying to understand it and then finally over 3 hours I GOT IT. What was amazing is that it did get better over this time. Initially it was a tad one dimensional and austere. At 37 years of age it still had the Falkenstein lemonhead acidity. Incredible experience. I hope some of my Falkenstein wines age like this one…
Thanks Robert! I love Dostoevsky - many layers and this sounds like the brothers Karamazov. Probably my all time favorite book.
With hard efforts I’ll do my very best to keep my hands off bottles and minimize the bottle evaporation.
It was a really hard wine to describe.
To me it was a perfect description, can’t ask for more - It leaves room for discovery and yet I can imagine it capturing the essence of the wine.
This is the motivation I need to not drink all of my Falkenstein within the next year. It’s just so difficult sometimes…
Ha! That is a totally understandable way of looking at it.
This sounds like the direction my 2020 H.F. “Egon” Kabinett Trocken is going!
Note to self: Wait!!! Until 2057 before opening.
I’ll be 97 years old then, both the wine and I will be ripe! One will be profound, the other not so much. 
