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1971 Trockenbeerenauslese!

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Just purchased (via Ebay) six bottles of this wine! 15 euros each!

1971 Ihringer Winklerberg Ruländer Trockenbeerenauslese "Grosser Preis"

Sounds like a sensational bargain, but you never know if these wine has been stored in the last decades in an appropriate way...

"Trockenbeerenauslese" is the superior German wine product (Sauternes level) and 1971 was a superior 20th century vintage year...

Well, lets see! ;)
 
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Trockenbeerenauslese is a botrytis'd wine. I'd be surprised if it is still good, but you never know. I brought a 1/2 liter, 1976 (gold and silver prize winner) from Edward Kroth Mosel winery, home with me in 1979. It was from his special private reserve. He had to hand-edit a label for me, since he did not have them labeled. I think I paid somewhere along the lines of $75 for the bottle. When I finally served it up for a celebration, it was sheer ambrosia.

Good luck,
Rich P
 
Good luck with your purchase, the tax coming into this country would put that bottle around $30.00 !
 
botrytis said:
If the cork develops a leak (oxygen gets in) then the wine can be ruined. Also light is a key key factor also.
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Corks can be a huge concern in wines over twenty years old. The phynolics tend to destroy the cork, comprising the integrity of the seal and the structure of the cork. When opening, be careful and keep an ah-so nearby.
 
This has nothing to do with cork problems of the 90s. The life expectancy of a cork in a bottle of wine is somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 years before they begin to degrade. Stored on their side or not.
 
Cork experts are generally part of the cork industry, so I'm thinking I would take that with a grain of salt. We spent an incredible amount of money on the highest grade corks and still experienced failure due to cork taint, but it was well under the 3-5% industry standards. You do get what you pay for, but you also have to make sure things are clean in the facility too.

As to aging, we had a library going back to the mid 70's and we generally find cork degrading after about twenty years. I wish there were a better alternative, there reallly isn't a perfect closure. We had twenty year experiments with screw caps, and those crowd control bullets (hard plastic corks) along with the foam extruded ones and still stuck with natural corks.
 
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Just purchased (via Ebay) six bottles of this wine! 15 euros each!

1971 Ihringer Winklerberg Ruländer Trockenbeerenauslese "Grosser Preis"

Sounds like a sensational bargain, but you never know if these wine has been stored in the last decades in an appropriate way...

"Trockenbeerenauslese" is the superior German wine product (Sauternes level) and 1971 was a superior 20th century vintage year...



Well, lets see! ;)
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Prosit!
 
I don't think that I will eat cheese with that special one. With other dessert wines I eat some Leerdamer "Caractère".

Well the corcs. I have some bottles 1976 Bubenheimer Honigberg Silvaner Beerenauslese "Grosser Preis". They were a bargain because the corcs look horrible. At least the upper part below the lead capsule. Damaged by the caterpillars of nemapogon cloacella and mould. I expected a dead wine when I opened the first bottle very carefully. What a surprise - the lower part of the corc (about a third) was fine. After cleaning the bottleneck very carefully I tasted the wine which looked like dark amber and it was the best wine I ever had in my mouth.

I will open the first 1971 Ruländer bottle on occasion of my next birthday in four weeks.
 
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Sounds like gambling on the provenance paid off. I have several bottles of J.J.Christoffell Auslese & Karl Erbes Spatlese from 2001 in my basement, that are still very drinkable. I must admit I am jealous, congratulations on your purchase.
 
I understand that the slight leaky-ness of the cork is a good thing to a point. Why not, after a certain number of years, after the smidgeon of oxygen has done its thing, just seal over the cork and all with something impermeable? Wax?

I have thought about doing this with my home brewed dry red which doesn't age so well, I thought perhaps the cheap corks available to home brewers might be part of the problem.
 
I had a high quality red wine two years ago named 2003 Zeller Rother Spätburgunder Rotwein Spätlese Trocken, and the over the cork was a layer of wax.
 
RT Fan said:
Sounds like gambling on the provenance paid off. I have several bottles of J.J.Christoffell Auslese & Karl Erbes Spatlese from 2001 in my basement, that are still very drinkable. I must admit I am jealous, congratulations on your purchase.
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I must admit, I am jealous! Christoffell produced some amazing wines in 01....and pretty much every vintage.
 
fmcsonoma said:
I must admit, I am jealous! Christoffell produced some amazing wines in 01....and pretty much every vintage.
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I got them from a wine shop in San Francisco, apparently it was a "Grey market" purchase, intended for sale in a Scandinavian country or some such story. Even with shipping it was a great deal. Too bad I only have 3 left but they were a treat.
 
Funny, I got mine from Premier Cru in Emeryville, thankfully they were off the shelf and not part of the futures program they scammed so many people with. Dee Vine in SF use to have a fantastic selection of German wines. They probably still do, I haven't been down there in a few years. Nothing quite like the crystalline purity of great Riesling.
 
Another great Ebay bargain: 50 Euros for these six bottles! (and no shipping costs...) 1973 Rust Neusiedlersee St. Georgener Beerenauslese.

Just opened the first one: FANTASTIC!!!

Generally I avoid wines without the type of grape on the label. But I was so curious. I never tasted a wine that is 44 years old! And this is my very first wine from Austria!

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