Community Tasting Note

DaleW wrote:

Monday, July 2, 2007 - Now, I'm usually the first to call myself an acid-head, but
this was too much for me. Just a solid wall of impenetrable acids, making the forward strawberry and cherry fruit so tangy as to be close to undrinkable by me. I was seriously bemused- I wondered if it was a food interaction, or possibly the lingering effects of the Spatlese's sweetness? But no amount of water or bread could make this really pleasurable. I gave up, switched to the Riesling. Later in the evening I revisited - a different wine. Still acidic, but no where near the original - a nice medium-weight Burg with red cherries, plums and cocoa. Tannins mostly out of the picture. Nice if not exciting. Similar today. One might say it was closed down at first, but it wasn't - plenty of fruit. But I've almost never experienced that kind of angry acidity in a wine that
showed such ripe forward fruit. C- on opening, B later. With so many other nice low-end '05s out there, no reason to stock up on these for me.

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