Community Tasting Note

drwine2001 wrote:

Sunday, April 27, 2008 - I brought this in and the sommelier was gracious enough to pour a taste of the regular Frederic Emile, which was available by the glass. While the "normale" was light, lemony, talc-laden, crystalline, high toned, and tight, the VT was a different animal altogether. Deeper in both color and aromatic "pitch", this was redolent of dried peach and kumquat but did not seem to have much botrytis in evidence. Much more open from the get go, dense, long, and fairly sweet for a Trimbach VT. Versatile match with lobster, sweetbreads, and suckling pig (to be clear, these were all different courses!). After about 3 hours, its underlying acidity became more apparent, and it blossomed a more floral Riesling nose. Both great bottles, but hard to believe they came from the same material. It will take the regular Frederic Emile a long time to become as pleasurable as the VT, but this wine has plenty of development ahead of it as well.

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