Asperg Wine Syndrome Tasting Group: November 2019 edition: Glass: Zalto Universal Popped and poured. After the 1983 Auslese had a bad cork, we opened this bottle. Clear, medium amber color. Clean, medium intense and fully developed. Black tea, earthy, smoke, speck, in the back some classic Ruwer notes. Not as expressive as I hoped. Medium-sweet, medium+, almost racy and still well integrated acidity. On the palate smoky, speck, pumpernickel, bread crust, herbs, black tea. Harmonious and still with a nice balance. Medium+ length. Still a beautiful, complex wine, but also certainly past peak. No potential for this bottle. 91-92 benevolent Fanboy points.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
East Village Riesling Extravaganza (New York): AP #36. Started out showing baked apple flavours mingled with honey and some brown spices, but felt old and lacking in acidity. With air this seemed to fall away, picking up some oxidative notes with the fruit fading.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No
/ Comment
Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.
11/2/2019 - NoTrollingerPlease wrote: 91 Points
Asperg Wine Syndrome Tasting Group: November 2019 edition: Glass: Zalto Universal
Popped and poured. After the 1983 Auslese had a bad cork, we opened this bottle. Clear, medium amber color. Clean, medium intense and fully developed. Black tea, earthy, smoke, speck, in the back some classic Ruwer notes. Not as expressive as I hoped.
Medium-sweet, medium+, almost racy and still well integrated acidity. On the palate smoky, speck, pumpernickel, bread crust, herbs, black tea. Harmonious and still with a nice balance. Medium+ length. Still a beautiful, complex wine, but also certainly past peak. No potential for this bottle. 91-92 benevolent Fanboy points.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment
1/31/2009 - salil wrote:
East Village Riesling Extravaganza (New York): AP #36. Started out showing baked apple flavours mingled with honey and some brown spices, but felt old and lacking in acidity. With air this seemed to fall away, picking up some oxidative notes with the fruit fading.
Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment