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Schafer-Frohlich

2007 Schafer-Frohlich, Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel Auktion, Nahe 375ML Nr36

Germany Riesling Nahe 375ML

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2007 Schafer-Frohlich, Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel Auktion, Nahe 375ML Nr36
Schafer-Frohlich

2007 Schafer-Frohlich, Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel Auktion, Nahe 375ML Nr36

Germany Riesling Nahe 375ML

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The classic story - a 2-century old family vineyard finally finds the right hands in the 9th generation. Tim Fröhlich made his first vintage in 1995 and has since been held as one of the greatest winemaking talents in Germany, regularly creating wines of both density and energy.

Schafer-Frohlich

The Nahe is home to some famous German estates but Schafer-Fröhlich is tops among them, counting among their 21 hectares of vines the famous Felseneck, Kupfergrube and Felsenberg. As with so many classic German estates, the slopes of these vineyards are so intense that everything must be harvested by hand, resulting in a rigorous selection process of tiny grapes that intensify the flavors and quality of his six GG wines.

Since he ascended to the winemaking seat in 1995, Tim made some smart trades and acquisitions of land, increasing his family's holdings to include a fine palate of vineyard and soil types; Felseneck's quartzite soils provide an elegant, defined wine. Felsenberg and Kupfergrube have volcanic influences, providing richness and more spiced mineral tones; Halenberg's blue slate and Frühlingsplätzchen's red slate offer unique, more crystalline qualities, in their own right top Grand Crus of the Nahe.

Tim's strengths are clear in poor or hot vintages, as he is quite adept in managing his vineyard to weather the varied storms; his wines are consistently stunning in quality, be they of rainy vintages like 2014 or hot as in 2018. Without a doubt, some of Germany's best wines come from this estate every single year.

Meet the Producer

Schafer-Frohlich

The classic story - a 2-century old family vineyard finally finds the right hands in the 9th generation. Tim Fröhlich made his first vintage in 1995 and has since been held as one of the greatest winemaking talents in Germany, regularly creating wines of both density and energy.

The Nahe is home to some famous German estates but Schafer-Fröhlich is tops among them, counting among their 21 hectares of vines the famous Felseneck, Kupfergrube and Felsenberg. As with so many classic German estates, the slopes of these vineyards are so intense that everything must be harvested by hand, resulting in a rigorous selection process of tiny grapes that intensify the flavors and quality of his six GG wines.

Since he ascended to the winemaking seat in 1995, Tim made some smart trades and acquisitions of land, increasing his family's holdings to include a fine palate of vineyard and soil types; Felseneck's quartzite soils provide an elegant, defined wine. Felsenberg and Kupfergrube have volcanic influences, providing richness and more spiced mineral tones; Halenberg's blue slate and Frühlingsplätzchen's red slate offer unique, more crystalline qualities, in their own right top Grand Crus of the Nahe.

Tim's strengths are clear in poor or hot vintages, as he is quite adept in managing his vineyard to weather the varied storms; his wines are consistently stunning in quality, be they of rainy vintages like 2014 or hot as in 2018. Without a doubt, some of Germany's best wines come from this estate every single year.

The Wine Advocate

Wine Advocate

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Sage, mint, peony, and pink grapefruit (again, shades of Scheurebe) inform the nose of Schafer-Frohlich’s 2007 Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Auslese Gold which then practically overwhelms the palate with rich waves of candied citrus, herbal concentrate, and liquid flowers. Striking salinity adds a hint of invigoration to this almost buttery-textured concentrate, but it finishes so sweetly that for now finer nuances are bound to be swamped. This will stand up to 30 or more years in the cellar, but I’d be disinclined to even revisit if for the first decade. The star status of Tim Frohlich and the Schafer-Frohlich estate – as well as the professional qualifications and dedication of the rest of the Frohlich family and their role in achieving extraordinary results – are by now well-established facts. Things are about to take an intriguing turn in the family, as Tim’s brother-in-law Karsten Peter has just been named by its new owner as the director of the former Nahe State Domaine (a.k.a. Domane Niederhausen – Schlossbockelheim). Frohlich has gone from his first experiments with spontaneous fermentation and with culturing vineyard-specific yeasts in the 2002 vintage to a widespread reliance on these techniques, which has not inhibited complete fermentations of what are by volume – as with virtually any German estate outside of the Middle Mosel – predominantly trocken wines. And what lift and refinement Frohlich is able to achieve in his (100% tank-rendered) dry Rieslings! The acidities in the 2007s, Frohlich points out, are not analytically all that high, but they are fine, ripe (virtually all tartaric rather than malic) and hence brilliantly efficacious. There are no weak spots here this year, and as at Emrich-Schonleber, the ostensibly low-end wines are exceptionally fine. “The fruit was ripe, healthy, and clear from the bottom rung up through Grosses Gewachs,” remarks Frohlich, “and the identity of the sites could be recognized early on in the cellar. To get this sort of transparency to minerality and this elegance, you have to work with tiny, perfect berries,” he continues, “and the harmony has to be present already in the vine. That’s not something you can measure in the vineyard; you have to have an eye for it.” The two Schafer-Frohlich 2007 Pinot Noirs, incidentally, were highly promising heading into bottling, but at an awkward stage for attempting to fairly assess their eventual character. Imported by Rudi Wiest, Cellars International, Carlsbad, CA; tel. 800 596 9463

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The Wine Advocate

Wine Advocate

93

Sage, mint, peony, and pink grapefruit (again, shades of Scheurebe) inform the nose of Schafer-Frohlich’s 2007 Bockenauer Felseneck Riesling Auslese Gold which then practically overwhelms the palate with rich waves of candied citrus, herbal concentrate, and liquid flowers. Striking salinity adds a hint of invigoration to this almost buttery-textured concentrate, but it finishes so sweetly that for now finer nuances are bound to be swamped. This will stand up to 30 or more years in the cellar, but I’d be disinclined to even revisit if for the first decade. The star status of Tim Frohlich and the Schafer-Frohlich estate – as well as the professional qualifications and dedication of the rest of the Frohlich family and their role in achieving extraordinary results – are by now well-established facts. Things are about to take an intriguing turn in the family, as Tim’s brother-in-law Karsten Peter has just been named by its new owner as the director of the former Nahe State Domaine (a.k.a. Domane Niederhausen – Schlossbockelheim). Frohlich has gone from his first experiments with spontaneous fermentation and with culturing vineyard-specific yeasts in the 2002 vintage to a widespread reliance on these techniques, which has not inhibited complete fermentations of what are by volume – as with virtually any German estate outside of the Middle Mosel – predominantly trocken wines. And what lift and refinement Frohlich is able to achieve in his (100% tank-rendered) dry Rieslings! The acidities in the 2007s, Frohlich points out, are not analytically all that high, but they are fine, ripe (virtually all tartaric rather than malic) and hence brilliantly efficacious. There are no weak spots here this year, and as at Emrich-Schonleber, the ostensibly low-end wines are exceptionally fine. “The fruit was ripe, healthy, and clear from the bottom rung up through Grosses Gewachs,” remarks Frohlich, “and the identity of the sites could be recognized early on in the cellar. To get this sort of transparency to minerality and this elegance, you have to work with tiny, perfect berries,” he continues, “and the harmony has to be present already in the vine. That’s not something you can measure in the vineyard; you have to have an eye for it.” The two Schafer-Frohlich 2007 Pinot Noirs, incidentally, were highly promising heading into bottling, but at an awkward stage for attempting to fairly assess their eventual character. Imported by Rudi Wiest, Cellars International, Carlsbad, CA; tel. 800 596 9463