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Knebel

2006 Knebel, Winninger Rottgen Riesling Auslese, Mosel 375ML Nr8 (VDP Auction)

Germany Riesling Mosel 375ML

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2006 Knebel, Winninger Rottgen Riesling Auslese, Mosel 375ML Nr8 (VDP Auction)
Knebel

2006 Knebel, Winninger Rottgen Riesling Auslese, Mosel 375ML Nr8 (VDP Auction)

Germany Riesling Mosel 375ML

Wine Advocate

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Destined for auction, the 2006 Winninger Rottgen Riesling Auslese A.P. #9 evinces faintly dusty, smoky evidence of botrytis along with peach and nectarine preserves and honey, which saturate the palate in an impressively rich, viscous, buttery, sweet display, with notes of fruit skin and botrytis pungency offering counterpoint. But in the finish, it is the vividness of pure honey and pit fruit concentrate and their sheer length that impress. This is no doubt a suitable candidate for at least two decades of cellaring. Beate Knebel worried that her 2006s would all be “heavy weights” as nothing was harvested below 100 Oechsle, and the tradition here is for primarily dry wines. As the 2007 harvest approached, some 6,000 liters of precious Riesling from its low-yielding predecessor were still fermenting! But in the end, nature virtually dictated a predominance of wines with at least taste-able residual sweetness. A Hamm Spatlese was rather misleadingly bottled as “feinherb” that had 33 grams of residual sugar ... at 15% alcohol! (Nor was it as grotesque as its analysis suggests.) Asked why she did not begin picking until October 15, Knebel insisted that “despite high levels of sugar, before then the grapes really weren’t ripe.”

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The Wine Advocate

Wine Advocate

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Destined for auction, the 2006 Winninger Rottgen Riesling Auslese A.P. #9 evinces faintly dusty, smoky evidence of botrytis along with peach and nectarine preserves and honey, which saturate the palate in an impressively rich, viscous, buttery, sweet display, with notes of fruit skin and botrytis pungency offering counterpoint. But in the finish, it is the vividness of pure honey and pit fruit concentrate and their sheer length that impress. This is no doubt a suitable candidate for at least two decades of cellaring. Beate Knebel worried that her 2006s would all be “heavy weights” as nothing was harvested below 100 Oechsle, and the tradition here is for primarily dry wines. As the 2007 harvest approached, some 6,000 liters of precious Riesling from its low-yielding predecessor were still fermenting! But in the end, nature virtually dictated a predominance of wines with at least taste-able residual sweetness. A Hamm Spatlese was rather misleadingly bottled as “feinherb” that had 33 grams of residual sugar ... at 15% alcohol! (Nor was it as grotesque as its analysis suggests.) Asked why she did not begin picking until October 15, Knebel insisted that “despite high levels of sugar, before then the grapes really weren’t ripe.”