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. — 3 years ago

with Alsu

Matthew Cohen

9.6

@delectable brauneberger juffer auslese NOT Sonnenuhr.

Nose: tropical flowers. Very pretty. Confectionary. Apricot flower. So fine.

Palate: mineral. Confectionery. Super elegant apricots. Wow. Rainwater. So so filigreed. Not a normal sweet fruity auslese. Wow. What a masterpiece.

Auslese is normally viscous. This is so fine. Such a distinctive style. You get the weight of prim but more elegant and more interesting and diverse fruit. More tropical. Wow.

Finish is rainwater infused apricots.

Bought from fass selections. — 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. — 4 years ago

Ej

9.0

Petrol hair perm — 6 years ago

Martee Rush

9.7

Perfect late summer drink 👍🏻 — 6 years ago

Charlie Evans

9.1

Super clean. Beautiful color. — 8 years ago

Charlie Evans

9.2

I thought this was great from the start but very intense at the same time. It'll be quite beautiful down the road but it opened with a bit of lime/citrus notes on day one and then on day two a tiny bit of petrol started to come through. Great mouth feel on both days and oh so dry. — 9 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Huge aromas, slate. Green apple, ripe nose. No botrytis. Elegant and very pure palate. So nice. Acid is so insane on the finish. — 9 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

So aromatic, funky, sponti, juicy and dense and concentrated. So pure. Long, floral, herbal. Brilliant — 9 years ago

Austin Ferrari

Wine Director Hillside Supper Club

9.2

#rieslingfeier — 10 years 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

9.9

Transcendent nose. Wow. Light, super clean botrytis, honeycomb, intense minerals, butterscotch, bee pollen, so mineral, just so deep and so fine. Stunning nose. The palate is almost perfect. Stunning elegance. So fine and so nimble. Ridiculous purity. I am almost speechless. This is a breathtaking wine. So fresh and so juicy. Wow. Just wow. — 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. — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Awesome now. Magic. Creamy and rich. Gorgeous slate aromas. Apple pie. Phyllo dough. Clean as clean can be botrytis. Saffron. So complex and refined. White pepper and a hint of sweet wild mint. Enormously complex aromas. Palate is ripe, creamy and so finesse driven. Salty and fresh with very good buffering acidity. Rich and baroque. Terrific inner mouth aromas. Enormous concentration and freshness but my goodness is this refined. Long finish finish that has that foie gras element that I adore in Mosel Auslese. A superb wine. Will track it as opens.

After a few hours, wowza. Nose is more fruit driven with pineapple and papaya. So refined. Palate is stunning. Layered and energetic but also hedonistic while also displaying the classic nimbleness of Classic Mosel Auslese. 9.6 to 9.7. Stunning. — 4 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.2

Terrific classic mosel spatlese. So good. Served with ma po tofu. — 6 years ago

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

9.4

Mineral, savory. — 9 years ago

with William

Paden

9.0

Wow....pair with Chinese takeout to find your happy place — 9 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Sick. Juicy and mineral. Lean and filigreed. — 9 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Funky sponti, mineral, slate, juicy, intense minerals. Tropical fruit, grapefruit, juicy and dissipating. Nice. — 9 years ago

Matt Austin

Owner/Winemaker, Grosgrain Vineyards, Walla Walla, WA

9.3

Not mind blowing, but gimme any 20 year old riesling and I'm usually a happy camper. — 11 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

9.4

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

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. — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.5

No formal notes. In the ZONE! — 6 years ago

Andrew Keenan

8.9

Moores. 2017. $19. Nice fresh young wine. — 7 years ago

Charlie Evans

9.0

A liter? For $20? So worth it. — 9 years ago

Penny Wild-perkowski

9.0

Some petrol on nose. Nice minerality and acidity. — 9 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.6

Wine of the collection. — 9 years ago

Judd Blair

9.5

Yeasty and slightly musty nose gives way to beautiful bright fruit, chalk, piercing acid - good lord this is a good bottle. — 10 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

One only favorites from Stefan. Great acids and rich. Lovely purity and fascinating flavors. So distinctive. — 12 years ago