Wine and Food Vacation…Finally!; 4/18/2022-4/21/2022: Full yellow. First intense dried peach, then some petrol and citrus. Medium weight, not nearly as dense as many Smaragd wines. An initial suggestion of some residual sugar, but then it became more lean and tight, following the evolution of the nose. Excellent, energetic, complex, and nowhere near over the hill.
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This was my last bottle of 10, and pretty good it was: best quite cool, near refrigerator temperature. Some classic steely acidity, mild sweetness, ample body for a Riesling-based wine not from Alsace or Australia.
This was probably the best bottle of the 10 for me, but, overall, I haven't been much taken with this wine, which is puzzling, given its reputation, and my other experience of Teutonic Riesling, in general. Maybe I drank them all too young?
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This seems tired on its own, out of the bottle. Pleasant still with an omelet over brown rice and miso broth, but not what I'd expect from a Riesling varietal with this wine's reputation at age 16, either in depth or complexity. Maybe Austrian Rieslings are more delicate and demure, less robust than examplars from Germany and Australia. We'll see where this bottle goes from here.
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Bit of spritz in this bottle, but no apparent degradation of the wine. Dry now, tangy; pleasant Riesling intensity in the novocaine style (numbs your gums). Good with French-style mussels, a scintillating titch of fruit flavor creeps in behind the initial impact of the wine's dryness. Vaguely calls to mind Trimbach cuvée Friedrick Emile, but more austere. A solid well-bred teutonic dry Riesling. Pleasant after-meal buzz, akin to that of a good Chablis.
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2/25/2024 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: flawed
Riesling bash at CHIKO (Chevy Chase, Maryland): What a shame! Two bottles of this wine were badly corked. Sad that it was stored so long when it never had a shot.
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4/21/2022 - drwine2001 wrote:
Wine and Food Vacation…Finally!; 4/18/2022-4/21/2022: Full yellow. First intense dried peach, then some petrol and citrus. Medium weight, not nearly as dense as many Smaragd wines. An initial suggestion of some residual sugar, but then it became more lean and tight, following the evolution of the nose. Excellent, energetic, complex, and nowhere near over the hill.
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10/6/2020 - fitzi wrote:
This was my last bottle of 10, and pretty good it was: best quite cool, near refrigerator temperature. Some classic steely acidity, mild sweetness, ample body for a Riesling-based wine not from Alsace or Australia.
This was probably the best bottle of the 10 for me, but, overall, I haven't been much taken with this wine, which is puzzling, given its reputation, and my other experience of Teutonic Riesling, in general. Maybe I drank them all too young?
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4/18/2020 - fitzi wrote:
This seems tired on its own, out of the bottle. Pleasant still with an omelet over brown rice and miso broth, but not what I'd expect from a Riesling varietal with this wine's reputation at age 16, either in depth or complexity. Maybe Austrian Rieslings are more delicate and demure, less robust than examplars from Germany and Australia. We'll see where this bottle goes from here.
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7/11/2018 - fitzi wrote:
Bit of spritz in this bottle, but no apparent degradation of the wine. Dry now, tangy; pleasant Riesling intensity in the novocaine style (numbs your gums). Good with French-style mussels, a scintillating titch of fruit flavor creeps in behind the initial impact of the wine's dryness. Vaguely calls to mind Trimbach cuvée Friedrick Emile, but more austere. A solid well-bred teutonic dry Riesling. Pleasant after-meal buzz, akin to that of a good Chablis.
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