Red Carpet Wine - Schafer-Frohlich Riesling 2006

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2006 Riesling

While wine making has been in the family since the 1800's, the winery just recently developed into a rising star over the past few years, adding another estate to the elite in the Nahe region. While father Hans takes care of the vineyards, wife Karin and son Tim are the winemaking team. With a low yield policy (average yield around 50 hl/ha) and the recent acquisition of more great vineyard sites to their holdings, the winery is well on the way to challenge top estates such as Dönnhoff and Schönleber.

The soils in the area consist of Porphyr, Melaphyr, weathered vulcanic rock, and a mixture of red loess, red slate, and blue slate from the devonian age.

While the dry wines are representatives of great quality, the noble sweet wines are among the best of the region. The estate has achieved numerous awards with Gault Millau and other German publications.

2006 Schafer-Frohlich Riesling Riesling Spatlese Halbtrocken Monzinger Fruhlingspltzchen $20.88
Exhibits richness, fatness of fruit, and yet also a billowing, deft, and elegant sense of overall lightness. Pear nectar, honey and praline aromas and flavors are backed by considerable sweetness but alleviated in part by notes of lemon and wet stone. This is a pure, refined, almost perfectly spherical wine lacking any evident nooks or crannies but certainly possessing love handles. Drink exceptionally now, but if you choose to hold it for at least 8 or 10 years you will see what further complexities emerge.

2006 Schafer-Frohlich Riesling Riesling Spatlese Halbtrocken Bockenauer Felseneck $20.88
Pear and pear pip, lemon, toasted nuts and resinous green herbs in the nose lead to an elegant fine-grained palate with prominent wet-stone mineral expression and vivid citrus and orchard fruits. Somehow the texture and feel suggest only moderate weight and yet a palpable sense of mineral and fruit extract and stuffing . A sappy finish of pear and grapefruit accented by toasted nuts, resin, pear pip, salts and wet stone satisfies on repeated sips.

2006 Schafer-Frohlich Riesling Riesling Spatlese Schlossbochlheimer Felsenberg $24.95
The 2006 Schlossbockelheimer Felsenberg Riesling smells of peonies, quince, mint, distilled purple and black fruits, and pungent brown spices. Spice-, flower- and berry liqueur-laced pear and quince preserves inform an intensely rich yet impeccably balanced and refined palate. The finish really whips up the flowers, berries and spices and suggests that these are early days for trying to capture the quality of this wine.

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