An Evening at the "Schwarzer Adler" - Part II

Schwarzer Adler, Oberbergen (Baden, Germany)
Tasted Saturday, March 21, 2015 by NoTrollingerPlease with 344 views

Flight 1 (1 Note)

  • 2002 Henri Boillot Montrachet 96 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Beaune, Montrachet Grand Cru

    Glass: Riedel Sommeliers Montrachet
    Decanted for about 1h
    Clear, medium+ golden color. Clean and very pronounced, fully developed beautiful nose. My first impression was quite irritating: it smells somehow fat, but in an elegant and beautiful way.. Minerality, herbs, spices, vanillabutter, very well integrated oak. Great!
    Dry with great medium+ acidity which makes the wine despite its medium+ alcohol level and its full body elegant. This wine has very pronounced flavors and a very long finish. Mineral notes, spicyness, fruit, nuts, elegant oak, smoke it was all there.
    Best Chardonnay I had in my life so far. I see it at its peak now, which it will keep for many more years.

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Flight 2 (1 Note)

  • 1961 Château Mouton Rothschild 98 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

    Glass: Riedel Bordeaux
    Mid shoulder bottle, decanted for about an hour.
    Clear, deep ruby color with slight garnet reflexes but no sign of ageing. If I wouldn’t be absolute sure that this bottle was genuine, I would have claimed it a fake. How can a 50+ year old have such a color? Amazing.
    The nose was not from this world! Clean, super intense and with mind-boggling aromas. For the first time in my life I understood the passion for great, ripe red BDX! It had a perfume which is indescribable. Cedar wood, elegant cigar tobacco, fine woods, without all that stuff I usually hate in BDX (like Brett/animalic aromas etc.)
    Dry with still medium+ acidity and medium, very silky and smooth but present tannins. In combination with the medium alcohol level it gives the wine a medium body, which –at first sips- slopes a bit compared to the nose. But after some time and with air it became more and more present and gained intensity. The finish was very long and I had this cedar wood and fine tobacco taste even minutes later in my mouth.

    The nose is for sure 100 points, the taste is exceptional but you can feel the 50+ years and it slowly starts to fade, even this bottle from this great cellar. Best red BDX I had so far in my life.

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Flight 3 (1 Note)

  • 1976 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Grands-Echezeaux 98 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Grands-Echezeaux Grand Cru

    Glass: Riedel Sommeliers Burgundy
    Not decanted, bottle had very few and very fine sediment.
    Clean, medium- garnet color, which I found surprisingly intense for a Pinot of this age. Clean, but almost closed nose at the beginning, which opened up with time. Not very intense but a beautiful pinot nose with aromas of finest oak, smoke, elegant red fresh fruits combined with finest spices and some blood (iron).
    If the wine felt at first a bit disappointing on the nose, it was a sensation on the palate! Dry with medium+/high acidity and medium+ tannins which are both perfectly integrated and gave this wine an exceptional powerful, but still elegant body and will conserve it at this level for many more years. I have never seen such an elegant, vibrant power in a Pinot yet!
    It was super intense with a fantastic long finish with lots of fine red fruits and berries, elegant oak in the background, mineral notes, and and and… Great!
    My first DRC experience was a bit disappointing (on a high level though), but this one was really exceptionally great. I want more of this stuff!!!

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Flight 4 (1 Note)

  • 1983 Château d'Yquem 93 Points

    France, Bordeaux, Sauternais, Sauternes

    Glass: Riedel Sommeliers Sauternes
    1/1 bottle, between high and mid shoulde, not decanted, lot of fine tartaric acid.
    Clean, medium+ golden amber color. Nose was clean, but not very intense (maybe we should have decnted it?). Yes, it was easily detectable as a good Sauternes, but nothing really fancy.
    It was sweet with high acidity, which buffers the sweetnes. We drank it with a strawberry rhubarb desert and it was a perfect match.
    The taste itself was a bit disappointing. It had all a good Sauternes should have (honey, botrytis, long finish etc.) but it was not special. I had several other Sauteres of the 80ies and it was not better than a Rieussec or Doisy-Daene. I had expected more intense flavors, which makes it stand out of the “crowd”, but it had none of it.
    It can easily stay at this level for decades and maybe develop over time, what I was missing today.

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