Community Tasting Note

• BradKNYC wrote:

  February 14, 2013 - Maureen comes to town and there's not a Burgundy to be had. Riesling and Morgon with Szechuan. (Grand Sichuan Upper West Side.): Maureen brought this expecting Salil to be at the dinner, but he had to drop out after she had already schlepped it to New York. His loss was our gain. Seemingly more Auslese than Spatlese, it spans a broad spectrum of fruit, from tropical, to stone to red with stone notes bringing up the rear and a swirl of honey. For a long while it showed surprisingly soft. I think most of us expected more vibrancy and zip from a '98, but by the end of the evening the structure started to assert itself more forcefully. It sort of seems like a celebrity that knows their status, is perfectly fine keeping their head up high and looking pretty, but doesn't want to say too much lest any mystery or close details get out. I think everyone's WOTN, though that said, while there's a lot of life left, it's peaked to my tastes. A/A-.

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