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Merkelbach, Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Spatlese, 2001

Name: Merkelbach, Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Spatlese, 2001
Brand: Merkelbach
SKU: NYC-[CNSN]-CNSN-GDPADD1224-011025-MUWRS2001-ROW156-BOX 21
Price: 79.99 USD
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White Wine from Mosel, Germany

by Merkelbach

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Every time you open a good bottle of wine it's an opportunity to travel, usually to that special place where the grapes were grown and the wine was made. But sometimes the wine will take you on a trip through time. There are a few estates that haven't changed for decades. But not many—López de Heredia comes to mind, and Lafarge in Volnay. When you taste their wines, you experience something ancient and beautiful. Time travel. In the case of the Merkelbachs, that time is the 1950s. Nothing has changed since then: for all those decades the same two brothers have made wines from the same terroirs, over and over again, using the same ancient methods on their beautiful, old, ungrafted vines. They started young and are both around 80 years old today. Like López and Lafarge, the wines are extraordinarily good. They have to be for the project to survive so long, working this way.

Professional Reviews

Robert Parker

RP 93

"Quartz and minerals can be discerned in the nose of the 2001 Riesling Spatlese Urziger Wurzgarten (Fuder Nr. 12/01). Light to medium-bodied, it has a personality of immeasurable clarity (my notes say "clean as a whistle!") and delineation. Candied lemons and limes are intermingled with crisp pears in this impressive Riesling's core" -Robert Parker

Details

Grape Variety

Riesling
Vintage

2001
Size

750ml
Farming Practice

Sustainable
Style

Elegant
Sweetness

Dry
Body

Full Bodied

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