2017 Oberhauser Brucke Spatlese
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The 2017 Oberhäuser Brücke Riesling Spätlese is intense and complex on the deep and flinty nose. Full-bodied and sweet but also piquant and persistently mineral on the palate, this is a dense, complex and tensioned Spätlese with remarkable finesse and crystallinity. Very elegant and persistently salty. Tasted in July 2019.
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Jancis Robinson MW
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Ripe pear, quince and raspberry, honeysuckle and peony combine for a seductive nose and palate, the latter polished, glossy and billowing with inner-mouth perfume. But the characteristic brightness of Brücke really shows in the animation of a superbly-sustained, luscious yet, focused finish that delivers less sense of overt sweetness than was harbored by this year’s Krötenpfuhl or Leistenberg Kabinetts, let alone by the corresponding Kirschheck Spätlese.
Cask sample. Crystal-clear fruit, not perfumed but pure, with just a hint of the exotic. Elegant and esoteric, vibrating with invigorating acidity, and dancing to the finish on a perfectly pitched, delicate measure of residual sugar. (MS)