- Where They Have Been Since Bottling
- The Famous 1994 Vintage
A Village Near Piesport That Was The Bling 70 Years Ago
I Only Get Really Old Rieslings That Meet My Standards Every 2-3 Years
- This Will Last for Decades
- The Price Is Very Reasonable
- So If You Like Old Riesling, I Have Case Pricing
- Final Bottles From the Cellar Of ANY '94
- The '94 Ritsch Spatlese Are GONE
- This is the LAST 94 in The Cellar
1994 Hermann Ludes Klüsserather Bruderschaft Riesling Auslese
- 100 Year Old Vines/Single Parcel/Own Rooted
- Straight from the Cellar
- Nose: Super Aromatic
- Lemon, Lemon Peel
- So Many Layers of Minerals
- Aged Riesling but Incredibly, So Fresh and Etherial
- Palate: Impossibly Complex
- Rich and oh so Sexy
- Dense Meyer Lemon
- Kiss of Acidity - Like the Lingering, Elegant Kiss of a First Date
- Hint of Lemon Pollen Honey
- Elegant and Mineral; Stunning Purity
- Wonderful - Very Distinctive
- Not Typical Mosel Green Apple-Driven Fruit
- Not a Modern Fruit Bomb Auslese
- Will Last 20+ More Years
- You Will Drink 2 Cases of This Easily in Its Drinking Window
- $36.99 Case Pricing - We Don't Sell Much 27 Year Old Riesling
- "Mosel's Best Kept Secret" - Mosel Fine Wine
All Good Things Must Come to an End
A few words before I get into it. It's a privilege to be able to sell the old wines from the cellar of the
Hermann Ludes winery. But all things will come to an end one day. I've also got some of the 93 Auslese on reserve for when that is delivered and people have tasted it but this isn't going to last forever. Look at Martin Müllen. We had an unlimited supply of the older wines and now there is nothing older in the cellar. Remember the endless supply of 95 Krover Paradies Auslese Trocken? Well, it ended. This is likely the last batch of the 94 Bruderschaft. My emails echo out all over the world and then others order. That's how it works. So buy cases before these offers become a distant memory. And they will.
Hermann Ludes winery. But all things will come to an end one day. I've also got some of the 93 Auslese on reserve for when that is delivered and people have tasted it but this isn't going to last forever. Look at Martin Müllen. We had an unlimited supply of the older wines and now there is nothing older in the cellar. Remember the endless supply of 95 Krover Paradies Auslese Trocken? Well, it ended. This is likely the last batch of the 94 Bruderschaft. My emails echo out all over the world and then others order. That's how it works. So buy cases before these offers become a distant memory. And they will.
The Estate
First a little history. My connection to today's wine is a winemaker named Julian Ludes but today's 94 is made by his uncle Hermann Ludes. It is from the village of Klüsserrath which is 8-12 miles from Piesport in the direction of Trier. It has insane levels of acidity and is made from very old vines. It is from vineyards that were very famous in the 40s to the 60s. This is a vinous gem and the only reason you are able to buy these is because of my deep roots in Germany. Stefan Steinmetz turned me onto Ludes and I am eternally grateful. I've been going to the Mosel every year since 2006. People know that I respect these winemakers and wines and also can move them to the right people which is all of you. You are the reason why people offer me wines like this.
The Wine
The wine is the 1994 Hermann Ludes Klüsserather Bruderschaft Riesling Auslese. This is a Fass freak show if I have ever tasted one. This is going to be $36.99 on a 4-pack and $34.99 on a 12 bottle case. This is a frigging crazy ass wine. I love the name. Sounds like mid 90s German Progressive Rock banc. These are 100 year old own rooted vines. Yes you read that correctly. It's all grey slate and south facing. It's from one small parcel and it is a warm site that looks like an open amphitheater. It immediately shows younger on the nose than the '94 Spatlese. Super aromatic with lemon and so many layers of minerals.
This is a VERY distinctive wine. First, it's not a sweet fruit bomb like much Auslese. Second, the fruit is lemon, lemon peel, meyer lemon and not green apple. Today this might be a Kabinett.
Unreal nose. So lemony and herbal but like high end Meyer lemon. The nose has so much depth you'll get lost in it. It keeps opening and revealing nuance after nuance. It's unreal.
The palate is rich and oh so sexy. Elegant and mineral. Stunning purity. Complexity beyond what you could possible imagine. Impossible levels of complexity. It's more like a super Kabinett than an Auslese. Must weight was a different ballgame back in 1994. So so fine. So so long. It's endless, actually. The persistence is real. Balance of this wine is like Simone Biles on the balance beam doing an Olympic gold medal performance. So lemony and herbal on the finish. It has this sick texture. Rich but also 3-4-5 dimensional. This is Riesling Porn. Another once in a lifetime opportunity. This will last 20+ more years, thus the case pricing.
1994 Hermann Ludes Klüsserather Bruderschaft Riesling Auslese - $38.99 ($147.96 4-Pack, $419.88 12 Bottle Case {$34.99})
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