Today I've said farewell to one of my cellar inmates. They came all twelve of them somewhere in the nineties and taught me to love the northern Rhone. In the first 10 years they where harsh, sturdy, sometimes unpleasant or secretive about their development. Somewhere around 2005 they opened up and showed me the real deal. Meaty, full bodied with a peacock-tail nose showing leather, blueberries, bacon, forest floor, black pepper and spices. Always in layers and perfectly balanced.
Today the wine was a gentle giant with all of the above mentioned flavors in the nose and a soft broad mouth filling taste. A stunning wine and the lamb from the oven with rosemary, garlic and a red wine sauce was perfect company for this majestic giant.
If you have some bottles lurking in a corner of your cellar then I'd say find a reason or occasion to drink them.
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This 2007 Kreuznacher Rosenberg Grauer is still young and although not a stunner a very nice sipping wine or good company with food.
I've put it in a contest next to a 2008 Alsace Pinot Gris over a two course meal.
We started with a warm salad with trout fillet, sesame seeds and red grapefruit. Although the Pinot Gris has a more distinct grapefruit scent the Grauer Burgunder Auslese had a whiff of spicy ginger and more vibrant acidity to cope with the grapefruit in the dish.
The main course was fried wild salmon fillet with a sauce of ginger and lemon. served with carrots, mashed potatoes and fried leeks. In this combination the Grauer Burgunder Auslese with its slender body tipped the balance by being less sweet and gave a better performance to counter the rich sauce and soy sauce effect of the fried leeks.
I can understand why these German wine make such good company in combination with Asian food
Although not a stunning wine now it has plenty of life ahead, a real bargain.
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This Alsace Pinot Gris is over the hill but still a nice wine if you can appreciate mature white wine.
I've put it in a contest next to a 2007 Kreuznacher Rosenberg Grauer Burgunder Auslese over a two course meal. We started with a warm salad with trout fillet, sesame seeds and red grapefruit.. Although the Pinot Gris has a more distinct grapefruit scent it lacked the accidity to stand up to the real thing where the 2007 Grauer Burgunder Auslese had all it needed to balance the dish.
The main course was fried wild salmon fillet with a sauce of ginger and lemon. served with carrots, mashed potatoes and fried leeks. Here the Pinot Gris gave a better performance to counter the rich sauce and soy sauce effect of the fried leeks. Still it seemed sweeter than the German Auslese and the latter was the overall winner.
It might have been a better choice to have paired the Pinot Gris with a salad with pear, smoked poultry and a blue cheese dressing.
I'll open my last bottle 2008 Dirler-Cade Pinot Gris Schwarzberg with this salad and/or some Foie Gras.
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1989 Dervieux-Thaize Côte-Rôtie La Viallière
8/21/2016 - Gfaerie Likes this wine:
Today I've said farewell to one of my cellar inmates. They came all twelve of them somewhere in the nineties and taught me to love the northern Rhone. In the first 10 years they where harsh, sturdy, sometimes unpleasant or secretive about their development.
Somewhere around 2005 they opened up and showed me the real deal. Meaty, full bodied with a peacock-tail nose showing leather, blueberries, bacon, forest floor, black pepper and spices. Always in layers and perfectly balanced.
Today the wine was a gentle giant with all of the above mentioned flavors in the nose and a soft broad mouth filling taste. A stunning wine and the lamb from the oven with rosemary, garlic and a red wine sauce was perfect company for this majestic giant.
If you have some bottles lurking in a corner of your cellar then I'd say find a reason or occasion to drink them.
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2007 Weingut Mees Kreuznacher Rosenberg Grauer Burgunder Auslese
8/7/2016 - Gfaerie Likes this wine:
This 2007 Kreuznacher Rosenberg Grauer is still young and although not a stunner a very nice sipping wine or good company with food.
I've put it in a contest next to a 2008 Alsace Pinot Gris over a two course meal.
We started with a warm salad with trout fillet, sesame seeds and red grapefruit. Although the Pinot Gris has a more distinct grapefruit scent the Grauer Burgunder Auslese had a whiff of spicy ginger and more vibrant acidity to cope with the grapefruit in the dish.
The main course was fried wild salmon fillet with a sauce of ginger and lemon. served with carrots, mashed potatoes and fried leeks. In this combination the Grauer Burgunder Auslese with its slender body tipped the balance by being less sweet and gave a better performance to counter the rich sauce and soy sauce effect of the fried leeks.
I can understand why these German wine make such good company in combination with Asian food
Although not a stunning wine now it has plenty of life ahead, a real bargain.
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2008 Dirler-Cade Pinot Gris Schwarzberg
8/7/2016 - Gfaerie Likes this wine:
This Alsace Pinot Gris is over the hill but still a nice wine if you can appreciate mature white wine.
I've put it in a contest next to a 2007 Kreuznacher Rosenberg Grauer Burgunder Auslese over a two course meal.
We started with a warm salad with trout fillet, sesame seeds and red grapefruit.. Although the Pinot Gris has a more distinct grapefruit scent it lacked the accidity to stand up to the real thing where the 2007 Grauer Burgunder Auslese had all it needed to balance the dish.
The main course was fried wild salmon fillet with a sauce of ginger and lemon. served with carrots, mashed potatoes and fried leeks. Here the Pinot Gris gave a better performance to counter the rich sauce and soy sauce effect of the fried leeks. Still it seemed sweeter than the German Auslese and the latter was the overall winner.
It might have been a better choice to have paired the Pinot Gris with a salad with pear, smoked poultry and a blue cheese dressing.
I'll open my last bottle 2008 Dirler-Cade Pinot Gris Schwarzberg with this salad and/or some Foie Gras.
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