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#386839 - 12-26-2016 19:13:09 Germany 2015 - What are you tasting or buying?
Marc Hanes Offline
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Registered: 12-13-2000 08:00:00
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Loc: Maplewood, NJ
I got into the game late and the wines I wanted were all gone or in very short supply and expensive. Got me three bottles of JJ Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese, my #1 priority.

Drinking a Steinmetz Geierslay "Sur Lie" right now which is electric and quite touched by the sur lie element. Interesting wine.

Got a few Schloss Lieser, Schafer-Frolich, Zilliken, Reinhold Haart, von Schubert, Willi Schaefer, and Julian Haart for the cellar. Hoping to end up with about two mixed cases from the vintage. When I look at what the same wine cost for the 2001 vintage it's night and day. Can't buy with the reckless abandon I did back then.

Anyone try any Richter? I have had better luck with their higher end stuff, less so the basic stuff. But the prices are still fair, relatively speaking. I feel like I need to grab quickly before the window of opportunity is closed. That's how they get you, man.

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#386860 - 01-03-2017 17:46:40 Re: Germany 2015 - What are you tasting or buying? [Re: Marc Hanes]
Marc Hanes Offline
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Could not help myself and picked up a couple of bottles of 2015 JJ Prum Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese.

Throwing a Kerpen Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spatlese in the cellar too, untried. Had some luck with them in the past. Did get one Richter Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr Auslese too. Unless I chance upon something too well priced to pass up (unlikely) I am done with getting 2015 Germans for the cellar. Crazy that I am paying now for Kabinetten and Spatlesen what I paid for Auslesen back then. Grumble, grumble.

C'mon, where's the cool kids on the Riesling bandwagon? Keep on trocken!

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