Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

The future of sparkling wine is here. Chardonnay on limestone but in Saulheim. Unreal nose. Wow. Deep notes of green apple, butter, earth and minerals. So ebullient and expressive. This totally smells German but still has a foot in Champagne. Some notes of lime blossom emerge as well with air. This is like a $60 Champagne nose. Palate is awesome. Full of sweet lime fruit and very lemony and super crisp. Such cut and precision. Awesome chewiness and density while remaining light on its feet. It’s a very mineral wine. It almost seems Brut Nature but it’s classified as Brut. — 2 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Gorgeous nose. Fresh mowed grass. Peach, apricot, minerals and some vulcanized rubber. Very petty. Amazing how sugar changes the whole equation. Nose gains depth and breadth as it airs out. Palate is lights out with unreal fresh layers of fruit, peach, apricot and white peach. Nose gets more evocative and blends limestone and vineyard peach. Such a summer wine. And likely great with food. Dense, light, nimble and just the right amount of barely there sweetness. Outstanding. — 5 years ago

Chris Shultz

9.6

Really complete now. Starts out savory and sweetens up with air. There are such excellent chiseled minerals that get cut with air at the same rate that the fruit gets sweet and fleshy. The fruit gets more pink too, more raspberry than cherry. The savory component changes with air in a non-linear fashion, but it’s an excellent forest smell, wild maitake and violet. Really well resolved. Such fine tannins. Compared to the Thörle, which has more aspects to it, and now seems composed, this feels so much more organic and soulful. There’s not a jagged edge in here. Great. — 6 years ago

with Lyle

Jakub Kalinowski

8.9

Quite rich & powerful with ripe pomelo and green grapefruit, lemon tart and some matchstick reduction. Fullbodied with the wood nicely integrated, good lemony acidity and nice length with a flinty finish. Needs some time to aerate so large burgundy glasses are a must. — 8 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.0

Super mineral, wet earth, creamy, very fragrant, delicious, juicy and deep. 1 grams of RS. Terrific acids. Oak is in the background and gives structure. Complex. 20% stainless, 80% older barriques. Between 2-6 years old. — 10 years ago

Kathryn

9.5

If you are in the mood for rose this is pretty good! — 10 years ago

Thorsten Staack

8.9

Urlaub mit Ines und Torsten! — 11 years ago

with Torsten

evie

10

Very light Riesling — 11 years ago

Rose Eastwood

10

Full bodied, low tanins — 12 years ago

Matthew Cohen

9.3

Nose : cherry flower.

Palate : cherry, mineral. Elegant pepper. VERY good.

Fass selections — 3 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.4

8 days on skins. Without sulfur. Really good. Grapefruit. Herbal lemonade. Wow. This is wonderful. Wow. — 4 years ago

Simon Hader

9.0

Schöne Farbe angenehme Säure — 5 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.1

Lemon candy, rocks, gorgeous nose, spice, Apple spice, gorgeous rocky fruits, such a unique aroma. Juicy and rich with nice ripeness and purity. Clean. Mineral. Very good but not special. — 6 years ago

Jean-Pierre Meesters

9.4

Price vs quality 👍 — 8 years ago

Amy Riehl

9.1

Loved this! Drank it at a wine bar in Innsbruck with Andrew (Kym, Helen, and Tamara joined us). Nose was slightly musty but it had the most beautiful hint of sweetness. Absolutely delicious. — 9 years ago

Tom Dare

8.9

2012 is really drinking well, good fruit and just a touch of spice, nice bang for the buck. — 10 years ago

Jason Adams

9.4

Science experiment. Not open for just three days but closer to three months and still singing — 10 years ago

Denis Roudenko

9.0

16/20 (90/100)

#austria #grünerveltliner #pts90 — 11 years ago

Gottfried Benn

8.9

2012 Winzerhof Stahl damastener Stahl Silvaner — 12 years ago

Michael Anton

9.6

Old vines equal delicious wines!! — 13 years ago

Andrew Schirmer

9.6

No formal notes. See @Lyle Fass review. Stop overpaying for burgundy, buy this instead… — 4 years ago

with Alsu and Geoff

Benjamin Carson

9.2

I really enjoyed this one. Acidic but nice — 4 years ago

Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.2

Confectionary nose that is teeming with energy. Awesome minerals, sugar snap peas and airiness. So clean and intense. Awesome. Has that 19 lift. Rich, yet also so energetic and crisp. Has terrific fruit intensity like apricot and kumquat but finished mineral and shows its limestone footprint. So good. Lovely tension between elegant richness and intense minerality and crunch. — 5 years ago

Cameron Etezadi

9.1

Elegant. Off dry. Classic. — 7 years ago

Brent S

9.0

Dry as can be with great minerality. — 9 years ago

Peter van den Besselaar

9.0

Vintage 2015 - violets, impression of lime, round taste, good example that pinot blanc can be interesting — 10 years ago

Mark Davis

9.2

Super aromatics — 10 years ago

Pekka Holma

9.2

Raikas tuulahdus Itävallasta. Osuma Dim sumien kanssa. — 11 years ago

with Nina

Dave Erickson

10

Bright mineral character at first, then rich yellow fruit and spice. Quite deluxe.
— 12 years ago

Joerg Meyer

10

Ranis, heavy powerful red wine from Austris — 12 years ago