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Large / First Growth: It's possible without comet!
2011 was a year of ups and downs. Frost, hail, early onset of rot or Gärprobleme made many producers create. Even the great growths of the vintage form from these difficulties: Some companies remained well below their usual level. Have seen - but where everything was just right, the fall brought the grape growers in quality as they are rarely - some never speaks of. The resulting wines are so juicy, dense, deep and complex, as one could wish. Many of them work due to their high level of maturity and sometimes perfect balance already deceptively accessible. We should not let this fool you. The best big plants of the class will only show in many years, what is in them, and a long time to mature. Here the absolute top wines:
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Hofschuster's top picks and reviews
2012-10-04: Mosel Riesling Great Growth 2011
Although some of the best producers will do later, because the wines are filled fresh is already clear that the positive development of the great dry Riesling from Mosel, Saar and Ruwer continue. Especially the Saar made tremendous progress in recent years, and this year, many of the best wines of the region and the whole of the UK from here. Stylistically, the great greenhouse moves on the Mosel between two extremes: the very ripe, powerful, schmelzigen style, from the hands of the best producers but will never wide, or clumsy, and the very classic, sleek, racy and fine fruity Mosel Riesling, whose best representatives radiant, fine, juicy fruit, combine tremendous minerality and crisp acidity to be both elegant and compelling drops. At the top this year are two wines that exemplify these two directions: the Altenberg Othegraven of the estate on the very ripe, the Scharzhofberg of Hovel of the playful and racy side. Both companies could this year the best dry Riesling in its history have generated, and both have more than one wine in the top group. Outstanding also Piesporter Goldtröpfchen of Haart, which is in its very mature, kind stoffigen can already identify blind slightly, and the brilliant, sleek and yet expressive, very classical kingdom of Willi Schaefer. From Laurentiuslay are two great wines: one of Grans-Fassian and one from St. Urbans-Hof, the former compact, mineral and grippy, the latter juicy, bewitching and for a dry wine but pretty sweet. Typically, and as good as infrequently the Karthäuserhof with its distinctive notes of herbs and cassis. The two Rieslings from Schloss Lieser were at the tasting still quite restless, especially the low-mountain hero was at all voltage and depth still so reductive that we had to stay with the score still cautious. He could increase with some bottle age might once again.
All your base are belong to us!
Ollie
EDIT: Hatte den "low-mountain hero" (with stars in his eyes) gar nicht gesehen... Gross. Ach was: titanisch!
