I should have said that the alcohol content rule ALMOST never fails. 
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Not to pile on as I get what you saying but that is not correct. Many of my favorite Kabinett Trockens are painfully dry at around 10.5% abv. I joked when Vom Boden made their Kabinett Trocken shirts that they should put 10.5 on the back like a sports jersey!
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Sounds like it. Also reminds me of the Melsheimer Lentum, with a crazy long fermentation. I never understood the wine and would never have associated it with the Mosel or with riesling. Kind of the free jazz spirit!
Hah! At Hofgut Falkenstein, Kabinett trocken often has 10.5 percent alcohol; Mutter Anna 2020 has a mere 10.0 percent alcohol.
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This is the second bottle of this Christoffel-Prum I have opened this week. It’s in a beautiful place for my palate; a deeply honeyed expression with some tertiary mushroom and earthy notes starting to emerge, but still very energetic and juicy. The palate is dense and somewhat sticky, but the acid swallows the sugar, makes the mouth water, and renders this 7.5% ABV Auslese refreshing, gulpable even, but with a very pleasing opulence. Very good. It boggles the mind I can purchase this at retail for $22.
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Albert Mann Schlossberg Grand Cru 2014. Great precision, vivid, full of energy, long and elegant. Great dry riesling!
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I don’t know exactly what a decaying corpse of a possum laid to rest in a pile of sauerkraut smells like, but I strongly suspect it smells very much like this wine when first opened. The putrid aromas blew off with an hour in the decanter, thankfully, and left behind an attractive but unusual wine. I imagine this will prove to be divisive, but I quite enjoyed it.
The body is slight but concentrated, packing a spectrum of exotic, tropical fruit flavors into its frame. There are, and I don’t mean this pejoratively, also some overt confected notes - Kool Aid, cotton candy, and turquoise jelly beans. Certainly there is some sweetness on the palate, but it is far less sweet than those descriptors would have you believe. (This is a green label bottling).
While this certainly sports a warm weather signature, the palate simultaneously feels cool. There are herbal, stony, salty notes to contrast with the richness. The finish is a bit short, but the wine is silky across the tongue. Not my preferred expression, but I am happy to vacation here once in a while.
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I am both excited and scared to encounter ‘decaying corpse of a possum laid to rest in a pile of sauerkraut’ as a tasting note…
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When I started tasting, I had trouble picking up green bell pepper. Tim Gaiser recommended putting one in the fridge and letting it shrivel for a couple of days (worked like a charm).
If I repeat the method with your possum, I worry Nicole will finally take her leave.
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And if kids are involved, you’re only getting supervised visitation. I am waiting for men bearing straight jackets to come take me away. My neighbors surely called the authorities after hearing me stand over the decanter, shouting as I performed an exorcism of this wine, “Leave this body. The power of Christ compels you!”
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Brilliant thread. And yes, how does this not exist. Everything Hermann Ludes, specifically is 2022 Thornicher Ritsch Gackes Oben Feinherb. Absolutely in love with the Feinherb, gently dry category. This wine has the hallmark Ludes sponti aroma coupled with greenage, dried herbs, granny smith apple. A garden fresh example of Riesling from the Ritsch, one of my favorite vineyards in the “Mystery Moselle”.
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Auslese Trocken is a favorite category of mine…during a recent trip to Germany we tried a handful from JJ Becker that were outstanding. Some should be arriving in the US by the end of the year. Be on the lookout!
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Donnhoff 2022 Niederhauser Klamm:
Last bottle of a case I purchased for youthful, low alcohol mid-week drinking. Not a good showing, unfortunately. There is a paucity of fruit on both the palate and the nose. The nose was quite appealing, however, showing mushrooms, earth and flint. The palate was a sugary mess with no nuance. I had a small glass and returned the bottle to the fridge for a mulligan tomorrow. I am not optimistic it will improve overnight. Hold.
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Ha!! Your store is where I randomly(to me) came across the last two bottles of Stein Kabinett trocken Palmberg showing in WS Pro in the US. While in, I spotted the selection of Ludes and bought my first-ever bottles of those, too. The Gackes Unten was one of them, and I thought it was superb!
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Where my petrol-heads at?
Extremely aggressive petrol note (thanks to the screwcap). It’s like raw petroleum and Riesling had a tasty baby. Fruit and RS balanced by a bracing acid backbone. This is the isht. Going to be hard not to drink the whole bottle tonight. Wow. 
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YES, and they can age soo good.
JB Becker and Bernd Philippi (K-R) are the grandfathers/pioneers of Dry Riesling in Germany.
One of the best German wines stores in the U.S.
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And Michael, the owner, is super nice and easy to get in touch with about anything related to your order. He’s also very clearly passionate about German wine!
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I can’t believe that I hadn’t already used that phrase in my crypt notes. 
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Screwcap doesn’t enhance petrol. Now reduction on the other hand…
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