Martin Müllen Kröver Letterlay Auslese
€ 43,00 INC. VAT
Martin Müllen Kröver Paradies Spätlese** Trocken
€ 18,90 INC. VAT
€ 39,00 INC. VAT
The Auslesen are obtained from ripe, golden yellow and from rusty grapes. Here there is a natural concentration of all flavours. Auslese often taste like dried fruits such as dates, figs or raisins, but also like dried peach and apricot. Mostly Auslesen are sweet wines. Only in rare cases do we offer dry and delicate selection.
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| Vintage | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Begin consume | 2014 |
| End Consume | 2042 |
| Size | 375 ml |
| Color | White |
| Variety | Riesling |
| Closure | Cork |
| Alcohol % vol. | 8,5 to 9,5% |
| Category | Sweet |
| Producer | Martin Müllen |
| Designation | 3278b, Auslese |
| Vineyard | Trarbacher Hühnerberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Region | Mosel |
| Sub-Region | Unknown |
| Appellation | Unknown |
| Typification | Regular |
| SKU | 5304128 |
| Categories | Dessert Wine, Regular |
From the uppermost of Hühnerberg’s three broad terraces, this one-star Spätlese leads delightfully with ripe white peach and mirabelle garlanded in diverse flowers, including the orange blossoms that Müllen considers typical of wines from that terrace. The delicate, tender, polished midpalate adds a hint of raw almond, leading to a lusciously lingering finish admirably transparent to shimmering wet stone as well as mouthwateringly mingled with mineral salts. Here’s one Müllen 2018 that I don’t have any worries about recommending for extended cellaring. Amusingly, he says it is one of several wines that he wanted to go dry – but I’m happy that it had other ideas. The situation was actually unusual, as Müllen related: “By late February or early March it seemed that this just didn’t want to ferment any further. But I thought, maybe if I just give it some time… So it lay nearly five months on the lees, naturally without SO2, but it never budged. And when I detected a slight hint of oxidation in the wine as sampled from the top of the cask, I knew which way its full contents were headed and that it was time to bottle.” Why award this wine just a single star? I can only conclude that Müllen doesn’t quite share my high opinion of it.
Heady, decadent perfume of lily, heliotrope and honeysuckle liquefy on a buoyant, polished palate that, thanks to an onrush of juicy fresh apple and grapefruit, exhibits more cut and freshness, albeit less flattering creaminess on the palate than does the corresponding Wehlener. This wine’s sense of vintage-typical richness is conveyed on the impressively sustained finish largely by floral perfume, while the fruit flavors continue to project surprising freshness.
