EKowalewsky
Member #274 signed up 4/21/2004 and last accessed 5/19/2004
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NV Buller Calliope Rare Muscat
5/19/2004 - EKowalewsky wrote: 97 Points
Really a wild and interesting wine. Don't know if I'd agree with RMP on the 100 score, but truly something special. Caramel brown color. Extremely viscous with multiple "legs." Raisins, plums, figs, caramel on the palate. Seems to change character, emphasize different flavors, and really become a different wine when accompanied by different foods: walnuts (an excellent choice, combining to produce a fat, sweet nutty flavor), and fat ripe cheese like camembert. One dimensional? No! This need not and probably shouldn't be consumed alone. The closest thing I have to compare it to in past experience is a tawny port like Warre Otima, but this is really something unique.
I would mark this down from a 100 point wine for its quite hot nose and tendency to present a wall of sweet that must sometimes be literally chewed through to get at the various nuances.
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1993 Krebs-Grode Kerner Beerenauslese
5/11/2004 - EKowalewsky wrote: 88 Points
Fabulous characteristic riesling nose. Not terribly complex taste of peaches and apricots. Good but not great dessert wine.
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2001 The Hess Collection Cabernet Sauvignon Hess Select North Coast
5/11/2004 - EKowalewsky wrote:
As usual, a solid, fruity, approriately tannic wine. A solid budget contender -- one of my two "house wines", the other being Penfolds Koonunga Hill Cab-Shiraz.
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