Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

Nose is so classic. Huge minerals and rocks. Almost no fruit. Maybe a hint of lime blossom. Really earthy as well. This smells like it was grown in dirt. Lemon. Some pink grapefruit pith. Palate is silky and so dry and focused on minerals and barely any fruit. Elegant and juicy with insane precision. Really high acid and just a driving mineral force and really long. So so good. This is one of the most essential Steinmetz wines. — 2 years ago

S.S. Mandani

9.2

Cherry plum perfume.

Spicy tannery tannins dancing with acidity and verve.

Vivacious pick from Wine Therapy in the West Village. Excited for it to open up a bit. — 3 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. — 4 years ago

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. — 4 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.2

Terrific classic mosel spatlese. So good. Served with ma po tofu. — 7 years ago

Charlie Evans

9.1

Super clean. Beautiful color. — 9 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

9.6

Wine of the collection. — 10 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

Peter Vetsch

9.1

God I love old Riesling. Still vibrant at 17 years old, in a mellow sort of way. Electric golden colour, oily, diesel, petroleum jelly, honey-dipped rocks, river spray...so freaking cool. From Richmond Hill Wines, unbelievably $25ish. — 13 years ago

Jeremy Gordon

9.8

Delicious — 3 years ago

Erik Longabardi

9.5

It felt like a kiss. When it hit me. And yes; with Riesling as a discipline, it feels good most every time. So much purity and density — 3 years ago

Riccardo L.

9.0

Simply electric. The citrus will blow your face off. — 4 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. — 4 years ago

Martee Rush

9.7

Perfect late summer drink 👍🏻 — 7 years ago

Michael Meyer

9.3

O. M. G. The real deal Cote Rotie. Stephan knows his stuff. A traditional baseline CR with some eccentric savory elements. Still the perfect pairing with lamb chops. — 9 years ago

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

9.4

Mineral, savory. — 9 years ago

with William

Penny Wild-perkowski

9.0

Some petrol on nose. Nice minerality and acidity. — 10 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Funky sponti, mineral, slate, juicy, intense minerals. Tropical fruit, grapefruit, juicy and dissipating. Nice. — 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. — 13 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.6

Nose: rich in a sexy way. Wow!

Palate: yellow fruits with a. Bit of green apple. A hint of rs. Perfect richness. So delicious. Perfect peach. Peach infused mountain stream. Wow.

Fass selections — 3 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.7

Just insane — 3 years 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. — 4 years ago

with Alsu

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.1

@Delectable Wine this is the one star. * thanks!

There’s something about middle Mosel Pinot I find thrilling. Nose has herbs, light red cherries and sour cherries and commandingly soars from the glass. Hint is spicey wood that is so appealing and if course this is on top of huge amounts of aromatic slate. This has unreal levels of just gorgeous minerality. Palate has oceans of sweet fruit and lovely soft impression with an intriguing mineral and salty finish. Sour and mid season cherries galore. Beautiful velvety tannins that are wonderfully sweet but also a bit big and drying but I think air will resolve that. Very juicy and pure with a hint of slightly green/sour element on the finish that keeps this from 9.3. Let’s see what air does. Air has made this decline slightly to a 9.1. — 4 years ago

Michael Wilson

9.5

Always amazing — 8 years ago

with Scott

Charlie Evans

9.0

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

Nihal Ramchandani

9.2

Green apple brown noise — 10 years ago

with g and Sélections

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

So aromatic, funky, sponti, juicy and dense and concentrated. So pure. Long, floral, herbal. Brilliant — 10 years ago

Austin Ferrari

Wine Director Hillside Supper Club

9.2

#rieslingfeier — 11 years ago

Peter Granoff MS

Master Sommelier, Founder/Partner Ferry Plaza Wine Merchant & Oxbow Cheese & Wine Merchant

9.6

Juicy, vibrant Mosel Riesling! Walks the line between bright green apple/stone fruit, racy acidity and minerality. Will be featured in October Wine Club, fpwm.com. — 13 years ago