Community Tasting Note

acyso wrote:

Saturday, April 23, 2016 - #11-91, 7.5% abv. Ex-auction, ex-Sotheby's Aulden Cellars, of the same provenance as the bottle from Salil below. Deteriorated and super-crumbly cork, but I managed to extract most of it with a bit of help from the spirit of MacGyver. Somewhat concerning golden colour -- this was about as dark as a Sauternes, but there wasn't lots of botrytis. But what about the wine itself? There's a lot of lovely tertiary notes with some sweet yellow fruit and a fair bit of petrol. The palate has a lot of those same characteristics. This is actually quite complex and enjoyable -- the brown sugar elements are quite nice, and play very nicely with the acids. While this isn't a bad bottle of riesling by any means, it lacks a lot of the freshness that ought to be still present in a well-kept bottle, and I'd have guessed this was from a ripe, but low-botrytis year in the 70s or 80s if served to me blind.

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