The 2019 Nebbiolo d'Alba Valmaggiore is a bright, sculpted wine that is going to need a few years to come into its own. Bright acids and firm tannins are a bit present today, so a few years of cellaring are a must. The Sandrone Valmaggiore has a track rec...
White pepper, crushed rocks, lemon pith and some nutmeg and white peach aromas. It’s medium-bodied, well structured and sharp, with bright acidity marrying rocky minerality and just-ripe stone fruit. So much tension at the finish. Drink or hold.
This is always one of my favorite wines. I honestly can’t say what it is specifically I love about it. It’s a bit grander and more elegant, more crystalline than the Felsenfest… yet there is something still delicate and easy about it. It’s so, so, so serious, but also clear and easy to drink. I love this wine.
What a juicy and animating light Mosel Kabinett with lime zest and mint character, plus good yellow and green apple fruit. Long, super-clean finish. And the total impression is of a wine that’s barely off-dry. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
The 2023 Riesling Bernkasteler Lay Kabinett contains notes of green, crunchy apple and supple stone fruit. The palate is imbued with chervil and dead nettle, both sunk deep into the lemony smoothness of its vivid and elegant lightness. (Off-dry)
The 2022 Riesling Erdener Treppchen Kabinett opens with a touch of tansy, lemon zest and chervil, spreading citric, herbal spice. The finish is gorgeously lemony. Wonderfully balanced, not too sweet, vivid and bright, a joy. (Medium)
The 2023 Riesling Ürziger Würzgarten Spätlese isn't ready to reveal its charms on the nose, but the palate is a beautifully savory, stony, salty monument to fruit and stone, with herbal savor of deadnettle, tansy and yarrow and the juiciest tangerine. ...
Loosen's 2023 Erdener Treppchen Spätlese is precise and intensely aromatic on the elegant and complex nose that reveals ripe, tropical fruit aromas such as mangoes intertwined with weathered slate and almond cake aromas. Round and refined on the palate, t...