Here is Stephen Tanzer's review:
"Bright gold-tinged medium yellow. Brooding aromas of ginger, curry powder, botanical herbs and crushed rock; lower-toned today than the more obviously botrytis-affected Altenberg. Suave and silky-sweet on entry, then nearly painfully intense in the middle for such an opulent wine. Perfectly integrated acidity and a tannic impression give this a powerful structure-as well as a somewhat less sweet impression than the Altenberg. Also less complex today than that wine, but this remarkably tactile, chewy wine is still an infant. Finishes with outstanding palate-staining length." 95 points
Here is David Schildknecht's review:
"A wonderful sense of lift and transparency suffuse Deiss's 2008 Schoenenbourg even as it projects an aura of herbal and gentian distillates; melon and citrus liqueur; and crystallized ginger, all bolstered by high-glycerin and unabashed sweetness. On the one hand this is metaphorically cooling, soothing, and elegantly refined; on the other it harbors a sense of both perpetual motion and firm underlying frame. I would anticipate 20-25 years of glory, although based on the proclivities of this site - as heretofore manifested to me, admittedly by pure Rieslings - one would have expected reduction and reluctance to perform still at this stage, and perhaps a closed, reduced phase yet awaits this. " 94 points
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Here is Stephen Tanzer’s review:
“Bright gold-tinged medium yellow. Brooding aromas of ginger, curry powder, botanical herbs and crushed rock; lower-toned today than the more obviously botrytis-affected Altenberg. Suave and silky-sweet on entry, then nearly painfully intense in the middle for such an opulent wine. Perfectly integrated acidity and a tannic impression give this a powerful structure-as well as a somewhat less sweet impression than the Altenberg. Also less complex today than that wine, but this remarkably tactile, chewy wine is still an infant. Finishes with outstanding palate-staining length.” 95 points
Here is David Schildknecht’s review:
“A wonderful sense of lift and transparency suffuse Deiss’s 2008 Schoenenbourg even as it projects an aura of herbal and gentian distillates; melon and citrus liqueur; and crystallized ginger, all bolstered by high-glycerin and unabashed sweetness. On the one hand this is metaphorically cooling, soothing, and elegantly refined; on the other it harbors a sense of both perpetual motion and firm underlying frame. I would anticipate 20-25 years of glory, although based on the proclivities of this site – as heretofore manifested to me, admittedly by pure Rieslings – one would have expected reduction and reluctance to perform still at this stage, and perhaps a closed, reduced phase yet awaits this. “ 94 points
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