Damning can frequently be better and fairer than cautious. I do counter-tasting regularly, and almost invariably find myself very VERY relieved to reaffirm my first impression (and subsequently feel peeved to have wasted some money on a second bottle, just for foolishly doubting my own expurtaise... :-P).
On very rare occasions (every odd planet conjunction) I modify an assessment, like with the Hahnmühle Silvaner "Gäseritsch". A wine that tries so very very hard. You want to pat it on the shoulder and tell it: "relax, chill a bit, the bodybuilding contest just got a break!"
I do wonder however and why in the case of the Maulbronner Eilfingerberg, two different fillings out of a steel tank within a span of 3/4 or 2/3 of a year could or would be so different. I hope nobody will try to tell me about "Jugendböckser" (juvenile flatulence), "Füllkrankheit" (filling sickness) and the like. Such convenient catch-all terms would not match this specific wine, the clear heavy structural flaws hat both ramblers noted, and the wine's production history, in my feeling.
In reply to A wine guide's view by Julian
Damning can frequently be
Damning can frequently be better and fairer than cautious. I do counter-tasting regularly, and almost invariably find myself very VERY relieved to reaffirm my first impression (and subsequently feel peeved to have wasted some money on a second bottle, just for foolishly doubting my own expurtaise... :-P).
On very rare occasions (every odd planet conjunction) I modify an assessment, like with the Hahnmühle Silvaner "Gäseritsch". A wine that tries so very very hard. You want to pat it on the shoulder and tell it: "relax, chill a bit, the bodybuilding contest just got a break!"
I do wonder however and why in the case of the Maulbronner Eilfingerberg, two different fillings out of a steel tank within a span of 3/4 or 2/3 of a year could or would be so different. I hope nobody will try to tell me about "Jugendböckser" (juvenile flatulence), "Füllkrankheit" (filling sickness) and the like. Such convenient catch-all terms would not match this specific wine, the clear heavy structural flaws hat both ramblers noted, and the wine's production history, in my feeling.