Willi Schaefer, Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spatlese Nr10, Mosel

Glass: Zalto Universal Popped and poured. Beautiful Spätlese from a warm vintage. It is for sure creamy and has lots of ripe fruit, but also a wonderful tension, balance and elegance. Uncomplicated and juiciness in the best sense! Long and lingering, with a very fruity end. Drink now or over the next decade. 91-92

2011 vintage

Too much acid, not enough fruit.... ahh 2011 it is. Postscript - After almost pouring the wine out as unenjoyable, I corked it a put it into the refrigerator. Two days later it was almost the wine we would have expected. It did not really appear to be in a shutdown phase before, but now it tasted like a WS spatlese. Most strange.

2011 vintage

This was under screw cap, still quite primary with a nice mix of tropical, orchard and citrus fruits, similar palate with a serious acidic backbone and a long salivating finish

2011 vintage

Glass: Zalto Universal Popped and poured. Beautiful Spätlese from a warm vintage. It is for sure creamy and has lots of ripe fruit, but also a wonderful tension, balance and elegance. Uncomplicated and juiciness in the best sense! Long and lingering, with a very fruity end. Drink now or over the next decade. 91-92

2011 vintage

From magnum, this was enjoyable sipping in its way, but the limitations of the ripe, low acid vintage prevent it from reaching any level of interesting. No fault of the winemaker, 2011 is just the least interesting vintage of the last 20+ years. I suspect wines like these will age a very long time, but always be serviceable at best.

2011 vintage

"There's a lot of fish at Montrose Harbor" (Chicago, IL) : Quite Schaefer in its opulence, and that is of course amped up a notch thanks to the vintage. This has the minerality of Domprobst, but to my palate, it's missing some of the acidic cut to brighten it up and balance out the sweetness (which is plentiful). A bit creamy on the palate as well, but certainly very delicious all the same.

2011 vintage

This has really improved with age and is unbelievably graceful and light despite carrying a good bit of sweetness.

2011 vintage

Riesling bash at CHIKO (Chevy Chase, Maryland) : This had a vibe full of cinnamon baked apples, honeyed biscuits, almond cake, some spiced apple cider. Fun and tasty but lacked verve and seemed past prime.

2011 vintage

Nervy for a 2011, racy acids with bright peach and lime fruit. Excellent length, this can age a long time but pretty delicious now.A-

2011 vintage

Pale yellow robe, showing very youthful and primary. Nervy white flowers and slate lead on the nose. Lithe on the palate. Seems to be a true kabinett level wine. Punchy acidity and a sapid stony core. Great stuff.

2011 vintage

Two months after the prior: happily, essentially the same. Yes, it’s a touch sweeter than we might prefer. But there is lovely tension, and it’s beautifully balanced. Highly enjoyable over four nights.

2011 vintage

Medium golden. Sweet yellow fruit, balanced by adequate acidity. Nice tension. A touch of pleasant petrol and stone fruit pit. Very enjoyable spread out over five nights, gassed in between.

2011 vintage

Honey pear peach, soft silky with good balance. Tart snappy finish. Lovely.

2011 vintage

Very tasty but lighter and softer than the last bottle.

2011 vintage

A nicely aged Spätlese. Young and youthful but not too young. I saw this more as an apricot/ honey profile on the palate and nose, but with light, impeccable balance. So tasty, not overly sweet. Perhaps a bit of botrytis? I a saw a bit of tartness that made me think of that.

2011 vintage

Sweet balanced by zippy acidity. Very nice.

2011 vintage

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Slightly sweeter than I would have expected for a kabinett. A little petrol on the nose. Slightly reductive with flavors of sweet Apple, honey, pear. Worked well with Thai food

2011 vintage

Oily petrol nose with white peach and honeysuckle. Palate has ripe red apple and some tropical fruits. Straightforwardly delicious and it even that sweet.

2011 vintage

So, 2011 is generally a lower-acid vintage, but there is nothing soft about this wine. Really dynamic on the attack, sweet but not too sweet, this wine is pitch-perfect all the way through, and long. Still very primary, but everything is there to suggest a slow, graceful evolution. Currently drinking much better than the 2012s. Wish I had more.

2011 vintage

Bright and rich straw with a slight green hue. Nose of petrol, ripe peaches, Macintosh apples, and hint of talc. Tastes of peaches, apples, cider, and hints of limestone and cherries. Lovely acid and fruit. Still extremely young and needing time. Drink in 5-10 years.

2011 vintage

This wine is still in the zone. It has perhaps shed some primary fruit since my last bottle and is showing more racy acid and mineral. Seriously delicious on a hot day.

2011 vintage

Gained weight and focus with 1-2 hour of air.

2011 vintage

Lovely. But could use more cellaring time.

2011 vintage

Nose of honey, some botrytis and mineral notes. The palate is smooth, almost buttery... Like apples roasted in butter. Also very mineral, and with some nice acidity - almost like fresh and slightly tannic apples. Very balanced sweetness. Just wonderful!

2011 vintage

White fruit (peach, apple), floral, electric acidity. Great balance. Lingering finish. Really enjoyable.

2011 vintage

This is a classic Kabinett with a welcome dryness showing on the finish. The fruit has faded & this should be drunk soon.

2011 vintage

Riesling Around the World-WWS (White Plains, NY) : Drank at WWS riesling tasting. Aromas of honeysuckle and petrol. Nice freshness, fairly crisp acidity, medium bodied with peach and apricot flavors. Somewhat on the roundish side, also fairly sweet. Pleasant spatlese all around.

2011 vintage

A near perfect wine. Wow. Electric. Minty with a concentrated core of just ripe stone fruit. Everything is in balance. Amazing Mosel Riesling. Cannot wait to see it with age.

2011 vintage

Another good bottle. Under screwcap, this came out a bit reductive and one-dimensional when popped and poured, but a day or two in the bottle and it really opened up. It had a lovely nose, almost more Spatlese than Kabinett in its honey and stone fruit aromas laced with lime zest and stony mineral scents. On the palate, however, this was as classic a Kabinett as I have had in years given the warm, heavy vintages that dominated the late …

2011 vintage

Beautiful gossamer. Sweet with good acid balance.

2011 vintage

Just a perfect kabinett ! That is: incredibly easy and satisfying to drink, without beeing overly complex. Nice typical riesling notes.

2011 vintage

Ripe fruit, soft acids make this a bit simple, however it's still very good with dense Apple fruit and mineral effects.

2011 vintage

1982, '89 and '90 Left-Bank Bordeaux Dinner (Imperial Treasure Shanghai, Ngee Ann City, Singapore) : Wow - what a change a year or two makes. This is really coming into its own now and it absolutely lovely to drink on the night. It had a light, dancing nose that is so Mosel, with lithe scents of grapefruit, sweet apples and white peach laced with touches of mineral, lemon zest and white flowers. All very subtle, but really pretty. On the …

2011 vintage

Round and deep but not a whole lot of striation. Rock solid, literally.

2011 vintage

Lovely bottle of Spatlese, though seemingly a bit more advanced than I expected, as the aromatics had a good amount of funk and rot. Drinks beautifully now though. A good case for drinking your 2011's earlier than normal.

2011 vintage

Fantastic qpr. Tasted against several 2011 Mosel spaltese wines and this won hands down.

2011 vintage

Very pure. There are rich florals rounding out the nose and very good acidity on the palate provides balance to a very ripe wine. Good energy and detailed finish. Lovely.

2011 vintage

Nice Riesling kabinett for the money. Pear and sweet Apple flavor a with some minerality and good acidity. Had with spices Asian stir fry - worked well

2011 vintage

Good, but still very very youthful. Bottled under screwcap, it was just a tad reductive at first, taking a little bit of time to open up into lithe little notes of white peach, flowers and stony mineral, all still a little tight and subtle. The palate had the same nice proportions I liked in the last bottle, but it was perhaps even less giving, marked as it was with striking acidity and citrusy fruit racing through primary notes of white …

2011 vintage

Drinks a bit more like a spatlese with a good whack of residual sugar. Good balancing acidity and delicious ripe pear fruit. Excellent. Drink now or over the next 20 years.

2011 vintage

Wonderful with Indian food. Acidity cut right through thick, spicy sauces. Nose of petrol and stones, with just a hint of Pear. Very oily pear on the palate, with chalky minerality.

2011 vintage

A nice young kabinett. The flint and floral notes came through for me a bit more this time. I'd love a touch more of an edge on these, but they're still very enjoyable. And looking back, I can see I've come a long way down the German wine path since I last wrote a note on this wine. Good stuff.

2011 vintage

Moderate intensity crisp aroma. Green apple, fresh ocean breeze, touch of honey and petrol. Touch of sweetness. Good though not quite great. Could do with a bit more acidity.

2011 vintage

+1 salil's TN

2011 vintage

Maybe we don't have a taste for the Germans. Faint nose, one-dimensional palate, not an amazing finish. Nothing interesting after an initial sip so we decanted it for the rest of the hour/hour and a half that it took us to drink the bottle. Nothing really changed/evolved as it was in the decanter or swirled to death in a glass. I'm sure it's young, but I don't know enough to see if it might develop. Maybe these put on weight …

2011 vintage

Ditto my last note. This is so good!

2011 vintage

From magnum, and while it's absurdly young and primary now, it's a lot of fun to drink now with very fresh, vibrant Mosel fruit tinged with slate and florality, all coming together in a package with the finesse and elegance typical of Schaefer. Fantastic.

2011 vintage

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