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"We started picking on the 18th of October," says Ernst Loosen, "but thenx000D we stopped right away. I never sawx000D anything like it we had 90 degreesx000D Oechsle and there were still 15 grams of acidity and you couldn't turnx000D something like that into wine without deacidification.x000D We had sugar already, but not flavor orx000D physiological ripeness. It took anotherx000D two weeks until we had acidity of 11 grams." x000D The results were in fact almost uniformly excellent,x000D demonstrating that physiological ripening indeed continued.x000D "On the 23rd of November," Loosenx000D reports, "we still had all the leaves on the vines, something I never sawx000D before." With virtually the entirex000D crop above the legal minimum for Auslese, Loosen had to do a lot ofx000D declassification, but botrytized grapes were in short supply and most of thosex000D went into the gold capsule Auslesen. x000D (Various importers, particularly Valckenberg)Also recommended: 2001 Bernkasteler Lay Riesling Trocken, 2001x000D Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Trocken, 2001 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett,x000D 2001 Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Spatlese ($20), 2001 Wehlener Sonnenuhrx000D Riesling Auslese ($41), 2001 Erdener Pralat Riesling Auslese ($53), 2001x000D Erdener Pralat Riesling Auslese Long Gold Capsule, 2001 Bernkasteler Layx000D Riesling Eiswein ($94 for 375 ml.).

From Germany 2001: Golden October? (Nov 2002) by David Schildknecht

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2001 Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Spatlese Gold Capsule

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