Seth Masterson

9.6

Just excellent. Crisp, precise minerality but what really makes it stand out is the savoriness not found in other rieslings- it's that bite of a luscious ripe white peach plucked from the branch on a sunny day.
What a beauty. — 3 months ago

Scott Kieser

9.7

First time with this bottling and I have deep regrets about buying only four bottles. The acidity is extreme. It swallows the residual sugar, leaving just a hint of sweetness, though the sugar makes the fruit burst on the palate and gives the wine density. Shockingly concentrated and intense with salty, mineral depth and a very long finish. This is closer to a generous Grosses Gewachs than my conception of a Kabinett. Thrilling wine! @Lyle Fass is this typical or an anomaly of the vintage? More importantly, do you have anything like this to sell me? — 6 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

HUGE botrytis on the nose. Honeyed peaches. Saffron. Gotta be brief as I am running late but wow. So big yet so nimble and finishes dry tasting. Awesome acidity and so clean and so clear. Profound! — a year ago

Andrew Schirmer

9.4

Beautiful wine - a blend of grapes so obscure the index of Jancis Robinson’s “Wine Grapes” reference will provide clues to only one of them. Highly aromatic - dried herbs & licorice - and a sweet sappy core. Cherry liqueur, buttressing acidity, medium finish. Good structure and balance. Lovely work. — 2 years ago

with Alsu

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

A stunning bottle of Mosel Pinot. Deep, penetrating nose of dark cherry, slate, moss, mid season cherry, black cherry and some blackberry flower. Tree bark and such complexity. Has more to tell that is for sure. Wild mint starts to develop. Palate is deep and structured with amazing sap and density and Grand Cru grip and structure. Pure, balanced and lovely black and red cherries with velvety tannins that are perfectly ripe. So pure and so deep. Incredible length and sap. Finish is a mineral wash and accented with blackberries and darker red cherries. This is young but very promising. So long and such well defined fruit. — 3 years ago

Brendan Baker

9.3

Peach skin, grapefruit, quince, mineral, long ⚡️⚡️ — 3 years ago

Dan Weisshaar

9.8

Stunning: tropical, pomelo, rich finish, excellent acidity…endless yum. Treasure from Fass Selections. You wish you were here with my scallop risotto and Monopollage Riesling. Happy 2025! — 4 months ago

with Lyle and Matthew

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

From earlier this week. No formal notes. Always brilliant. — 6 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.3

Nose: so clean and pristine. Mineral. Yellow flowers. Very pretty.

Palate: elegant citrus.

Let’s see where this goes.

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Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

Nose starts out so quiet. Some light peach and minerality. Now it’s opening and we are getting some nice peach juice, vulcanized rubber, minerals and some confectionary notes. A deep honey note now and also some intense minerals. Smells round. Smells so pure and so fresh. Wow great acids and freshness. Man this is awesome! Impossibly complex and so much honey, peach, lime and driving mineral force. Unreal intensity and a step above the other two Piesport Kabi’s in 2023. The finish is so so salty and endless. This is super elite. Unreal complexity and intensity and what a finish that never ends. This also has excessive crushed rock minerality. Wow. Insane!!! — a year ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

A stunning wine. Nose is mid season cherries, cranberry bog, gorgeous flowers and herbs. So floral so fragrant. Love how expressive the nose is. Palate is so silky, elegant and pure. Wonderfully sappy and fresh with perfect balance the most restrained opulence ever. So pure and clear. The clarity of the fruit is remarkable. So much more open than the one I had at Steinmetz’s at the end of August. Really silky and sweet. One foot in the old Spätburgunder style and one foot in the red riesling camp. Amazing freshness. — 3 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Just as classic as it gets. A stunningly beautiful bottle of Spätlese. Nose is slate city. Green apple. Peach. Rainwater. Rubber. Lemon. Lime. So clean. Super juicy and clean but not over the top concentrated. Everything is in its little perfect place. Welcome to the Dollhouse 2 - Spätlese. (Don’t Google what that movie is about!). Its soaring aromas are mimicked on the palate with a soaring bit sublime perfection. This is not a dense, crazy wine, it’s a a perfect feather of a wine. This is what Spätlese used to be. Nose gets apple juice like with air but man if only apple juice smelled like this and not whatever the hell it smells like now. Lovely mid palate and just perfect but not aggressive acidity. My goodness this is clean and beautiful and just perfect for what it is. — 3 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

Wow. Love these. Wow is that mineral. Stunning mineral depth. Just dizzying. Amazing. Tree bark. Citrus rind. Almost a crystalline purity. Again, so airy like a scene in nature. Super complex nose. Maybe a 9.8. Wow, that is insane. That’s a 9.8 palate. It’s ripe but so crystalline and pure. Focused and nimble. Insane concentration and purity. Dancing pitter patter of acid. So so delicate. Finish is just insane and insane. Early season apricot. Mirabelle plum. Wow. Cleansing acids. Not painful and gently caressing. Insane concentration and power but at the same time it’s super nimble and round. Genius. — 3 years ago

Scott Kieser

10

I have only three bottles; I opened this with great trepidation, thinking the odds were high it would be shut down. Nope. This is open for business and incredibly intense.

I had this bottling once before. The 1992 vintage in 2010. Neither I nor the retailer had ever heard of the estate. It was ultimately the best wine I had ever tasted, and it remains my benchmark for fine wine today. I have thought about that bottle every day since. While this bottle didn’t achieve the same heights, I travelled back in time with the first sip. It has the same full throttle intensity with paradoxical elegance. It posses the same weightless density, the same salty mineral depth, the same electricity on the finish, the same silkiness, the same well-mannered explosiveness, and the same ability to furlough me from my perpetual stoicism. This is, of course, a young wine and has a lot of baby fat - delicious, apricot flavored adiposity - and needs time for the sugar to integrate. (The 1992 tasted completely dry. No idea if this dries out to the same extent). While this will certainly evolve and improve for some time, I not only have no regrets about trying this early, I adore this youthfully exuberant phase. I’ll probably open another soon to enjoy with duck. @Lyle Fass — 5 months ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.8

Unreal! The Coche bottling of the Mosel. Stunning richness and elegance allied with awesome acidity. Genius. — 9 months ago

Matthew Cohen

9.4

Needs an hour to open up.

Nose is white flowers. Green apple skin.

Palate is clean mineral. Sweet green apple.

Tasty now but this will be amazing in 15 years.

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Riccardo L.

9.0

Simply electric. The citrus will blow your face off. — 2 years ago

Iwan

9.1

Lovely Pinot. Light in color and almost see through. Vibrant nose, cherry and forest floor on the palate. Insane QPR, punches way above its price point. — 3 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.9

Holee shit. Best nose of the morning. Smells like a scene in nature. Holy moly. Honeyed apricots. So so insane. Minerals. Peach. So vivid, so precise, icing on a cake. Confectionery but also a scene in nature. Wow. Saffron? Smells sweet like but is bone dry. Juicy and pure, so fresh and so compact. Structured and dense. Crystalline purity. Compact. Stunning. Wow acid. Cheeks tingle and tongue does not tingle. Amazing freshness. This is superb and dense, but so nimble and elegant. The length is endless. This is as brilliant as anything I’ve ever had at fass selections. — 3 years ago

Ej

9.0

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