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A nicely aged Riesling can be a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, for those not blessed with a proper cellar storing wine for a decade or two is a risky venture. This makes buying aged wine directly from the winery very interesting, especially when the wine comes at a reasonable price. Of course, there is also the risk that they are trying to dump rubbish they couldn't sell on you, but for €12.90 and coming from a good winery I thought I could take my chances with this half-dry late vintage Riesling from the Moselle:

My tasting notes from our famous Müllen visit during the early summer of 2008 stressed that this wine had a lot of lemony acid and was quite strong on mineral. Well...

"For me, this wine is very easy to describe. Imagine, you walk into this woodcutter camp and this big lumberjack comes straight at you. And hits you in the face with this massive mineral axe that is coated in lemony acid. And when you think you cannot take it any more, you notice that the lumberjack's mineraly sweat has a tincy bit of mango in it - before you pass out. This is what this wine tastes like!"

Or so.

Great value.

In the nose, this golden beauty is quite impressive: mineral, herbs, fresh acidity. Compared to that, the taste seems a little weak at first; very light but still noticeable acidity. With time the wine improves, the herbal notes get stronger, more mineral, still fresh and light. Still, it is better in the nose than in the mouth. Towards the end I notice a little bit of petrol, not unpleasant. [read the full post...]

Light in the nose with a hint of petrol and sugary fruitiness. And something else which we could not identify at first. In the mouth sugar sweet, melon, concentrated - and here it comes - cough mixture. After two sips I had enough of petroly cough mixture with creamy sugar flavour. Back into the fridge. [read the full post...]