Everyone loves odd sized bottles. It doesn't matter if they are half bottles, magnums or melchiors, a different size bottle is a wine lovers secret pleasure. Baby bottles (18.5cl) are normally filled with cheap muck and sold for a couple of quid in a supermarket, but Dr Loosen has bottled two sweet rieslings in them, to open up what are normally expensive wines to more fiscally challenged people. Plus, they are great stocking fillers!
2006 Dr Loosen Riesling Beerenauslese
Light, gentle fruit with a bundle of grapefruit, fresh cut flower stems, apricots and dried mango. Tiny hints of petrol mixed with plasticine. The palate is of rich, sweet honey cut with lemon juice, grape juice and then the flavour that you bite into a fresh peach.
A delicate and feminine wine with soft acid cleaning out your mouth, with lovely oriental spice! Essentially the palate is like an oriental bath & massage - spicy, a touch fruity and you end up clean and wanting more! 9/10
2007 Dr Loosen Riesling Eiswein Blue Slate
A hippo ballet dancing. Big, musty with spices galore and then zingy lime, mint, peach and lychee. Then there is a tiny hint of petrol, some crisp apple too. The palate is thick, creamy texture, and then mouthwatering freshness - lots of ripe peach, clementine, orange and honey galore. An intense up front fat sweetness at the start of the finish that seamlessly glides through a big gutsy mid palate to a light, delicate finish. As I said, like a hippo ballet dancing, fat at first but light and graceful! 9/10
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