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Dr. H. Thanisch Riesling Kabinett Berncasteler Doctor 2017 750ml

size
750ml
country
Germany
appellation
Mittel Mosel
subappellation
Bernkastel
JS
94
WA
93
WE
92
WS
92
VM
90
Additional vintages
2019 2018 2017 2015
JS
94
Rated 94 by James Suckling
I love the ripe peachy fruit of this wine. Behind that, there’s a great mineral structure that effortlessly carries the long and elegant finish. Impeccable balance. Drink or hold. ... More details
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Dr. H. Thanisch Riesling Kabinett Berncasteler Doctor 2017 750ml

SKU 892330
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Professional Ratings
JS
94
WA
93
WE
92
WS
92
VM
90
JS
94
Rated 94 by James Suckling
I love the ripe peachy fruit of this wine. Behind that, there’s a great mineral structure that effortlessly carries the long and elegant finish. Impeccable balance. Drink or hold.
WA
93
Rated 93 by Wine Advocate
Picked in the third week of October, the 2017 Berncasteler Doctor Riesling Kabinett is deep and intense on the flinty, yeasty nose that's less reductive than usual. Super ripe and lush Riesling flavors intertwine with flinty notes, leading to an enormously lush and mouth-filling Riesling with a salty-mineral and piquant finish. This is at least Spätlese if not Auslese quality in terms of fruit intensity and richness. The finish is piquant and salty, crisp and stimulating. I don't get the Doctor here at this stage, but let's talk about it again in 10 years. The wine was bottled with 54 milligrams of free SO2. Tasted in March 2019.
WE
92
Rated 92 by Wine Enthusiast
Pristine, sun-kissed white peach and grapefruit flavors are jolted by lightening strikes of lemon and lime in this irresistibly lip-smacking wine. It's intensely juicy and concentrated yet breathless and weightless on the palate. A gorgeous wine already that should improve through 2027.
WS
92
Rated 92 by Wine Spectator
A reductive style, with yeasty notes at the beginning that blow off with some air. Once they clear, this white shows beautiful harmony and an expressive palate, filled with orchard and stone fruit flavors, all linked by minerality and firm acidity. Crafted with precision. Drink now through 2027. 200 cases made, 50 cases imported.
VM
90
Rated 90 by Vinous Media
Ripe quince and Golden Delicious apple are wreathed in musky narcissus and tinged with pungency of bruised apple skin on a nose that foreshadows the almost decadently ripe fruit and inner-mouth perfume, but also the counterpoint of chew and piquancy, that emerges on the polished, buoyant palate. Fresh lime injects welcome juiciness and animation to a lusciously lingering finish where high residual sugar is held in check. Interestingly for a vintage in which many growers found it challenging to capture ripeness at a must weight appropriate to Kabinett, the volume of this bottling slightly exceeds the aggregate volume of the present collection's two Doctor Spätlesen.
Product Details
size
750ml
country
Germany
appellation
Mittel Mosel
subappellation
Bernkastel
Additional vintages
2019 2018 2017 2015
Overview
I love the ripe peachy fruit of this wine. Behind that, there’s a great mineral structure that effortlessly carries the long and elegant finish. Impeccable balance. Drink or hold.
green grapes

Varietal: Riesling

The pale skinned fruits of the Riesling grapevine have been grown in and around Germany's Rhine Valley for centuries, and contributed much to the country's wine culture. Today, Riesling grapes are grown and processed in several countries around the world, where they are prized for their ability to grow well in colder climates, and their unique flavors and characteristics. Riesling grapes produce an impressive array of wines, including fine semi sweet and dessert wines, to excellent dry white wines and sparkling varieties, all which allow the grape to shine through as a premier example of an excellent white wine varietal. One of the things which makes Riesling such a special grape is the fact that it is highly 'terroir expressive', meaning that the features of the land it is grown on can come across well in the flavors and aromas in the wine. As such, it isn't unusual to find flavors of white stone, or smoky ash-like notes in a fine Riesling alongside the more usual orchard fruit flavors more commonly associated with good white wines.
fields

Country: Germany

Despite being known primarily for sweet and semi-sweet white wines, Germany actually produces a surprisingly large and varied range of wines, with many reaching an extremely high standard and being very well received on the world stage. The terrain across much of the southern parts of the country is extremely fertile, with mineral rich soils adding a wonderful edge to already excellent grapes, and thus resulting in delicious and highly elegant white and rosé wines. The climate in many parts of Germany also allows for some more unusual wine-making practices, with certain regions specializing in the highly aromatic and distinctive 'ice-wines' which are gaining popularity by those looking for something a little more intense and unusual. With these wines, the producers allow the grapes to freeze through the early frosts, resulting in a higher sugar content and a fantastic set of flavors and aromas in the finished product. Germany has long since favored quality over quantity, and a new enthusiasm for fine wine within the country is producing truly exciting results, using a blending of traditional and contemporary techniques.
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Varietal: Riesling

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