Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

My first Von Der Mark wine. And wow. He is a Pinot specialist from Baden. Vines near Freiburg like Möbitz. A Dutch fellow who is also a MW. I zoomed with him for an hour before he sent me samples. The right people liked his wines and that was enough for me to get samples.

Ridiculously high toned nose. Just incredible. Huge Pinot aromas that are classic and delightful at the same time. It smells like Chambolle like it’s crazy. Or a killer Vosne Romanee Village wine. It’s one of the Jost lifted aromatic wines I’ve had. Usually wines have an aromatic ceiling. This has none. Straight to your brain. There’s a citrus undertone. Ethereal floral complexity. Elite. It’s broad but filled out and clear. There is also a lovely earthy funk. Wow. Vosne Romanee violets. This is crazy aromatic. Like elite. Palate is so good. This is so elegant, has such terrific mouthfeel. Terrific compact fruit intermingled with crazy spice. Juicy and so clean. Sour, mid season cherries form a sweet/tart interplay that is terrific. Awesome ripeness and just insanely fresh, deep, pure and fleshy cherry fruit. This has guts as well. Sweet, ripe tannins and minerals abound in the finish,which is crazy long. This is as easy to ponder as it is to drink. — 5 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Stunning. My note got eaten. — 6 years ago

Avi Das

8.9

Waxy and floral up front, umami in the middle, finishes sweet and oily, it’s good but funky (vintage 08 in 2018) — 7 years ago

Michael Pearson

9.5

2007. So delicious! Minerals. — 8 years ago

Jeff Cohen

9.5

2008 elegance — 8 years ago

Kelly Bryan

9.0

Sweet. NSLC "intense crisp & fruity". Liked it almost as much as Jost. — 9 years ago

Matthew Davis

9.1

So good! Honeysuckle and cooked peaches , little bit of residual sugar that pairs so well with spicy Indian food. Some straw and herbal notes, and maybe a little slate. — 5 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.2

Nice fruit. Nicely balanced and mineral.

Bought from fass selections — 6 years ago

Carsten Rudolph

8.9

Weissburgunder — 7 years ago

Andrew Keenan

9.3

Moores. 2011. $35. Outstanding, age worthy riesling. — 7 years ago

Amanda B.

9.6

Great Chardy — 8 years ago

Zoran Korencan

9.0

With Mateja&Jost on 28.2.2017 — 8 years ago

Chris Mitchell

9.6

Wow. Golden and honeyed. Amazingly expressive. Rich and decadent with length on the finish. What a treat! — 9 years ago

Charlene Vacon

9.2

What a delightful light red. If you close your eyes, you’re drinking a white. Soft fruit, light acidity and a sweetness that’s fresh. I had it at room temp this time but I could see putting it on ice in the summer months. — 5 years ago

Tom Casagrande

9.1

Lots of pure, ripe, lightly-honeyed fruit in the nose, mostly peach and ripe apple. A subtle slatey/gravelly note. Round and intense on the attack, slightly sweet, with a long, finish that echos minerality. Very nice, but soft, acids. — 6 years ago

Jakub Kalinowski

9.1

Rich gold in colour and nicely matured. Sweet apple pie, quince, lemon tart with honey. On the palate beautifully balanced with sweet fruit and razor sharp lime acidity, with a mineral streak. Quite powerful & drinking very nicely now. — 7 years ago

Chip Hughes

9.4

Typical Ratzenberger brilliance. Macadamia, cocoa butter, Queen Anne cherries. Just the slightest hint of slate, flint and sweetness. Mouthcoating, impossibly long, already becoming a haunting sort of thing. Who else can take a hot year and a GG vineyard and make an exceptional feinherb of it? #ratzenberger #mittelrhein #riesling — 7 years ago

Ryan Brazell

Rise Over Run

9.3

Who says beach wine needs to be simple and whimsical? Great wine from an important site. — 8 years ago

Ted D

9.4

Awesome, smooth delicious wine - very golden. Bacharach, Germany — 9 years ago

Kimberley Trenholm

10

Paired it with raw oysters, outside in the sun, very good! — 9 years ago