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By Stephen Tanzer
(Domaine Trimbach Riesling Reserve) Login and sign up and see review text.
November/December 2003, IWC Issue #111, (See more on Vinous...)
3/31/2022 - Ingmars wrote:
The last bottle of a wine that I have enjoyed drinking since late in 2004.
Ten personal notes and my 2010 published CT note reveal that it's seen every rung from good (only once), good plus (also only once), very good (four times), very good plus (twice) to fine (thrice), with the wine really starting to show its qualities in the last quarter of 2010. It's still quite a range in evaluations, more so than is usual for me. The oddball good rating was in the first month of 2006, when the wine nosed nicely, but felt clumsy and awkward in the mouth, with simple flavours to boot. I possibly didn't pick it then, but I am now confident that the wine had entered a difficult phase. A bottle 39 months later was very good and subsequent bottles continued in this vein or better until just after mid-2015 when, presenting the wine at a tasting, I rated it only good plus. It was wedged in between Peter Lehmann Riesling Wigan 2006 and Trimbach Riesling Cuvée Frédéric Emile 1997 and I made the point that its subtlety was lost on me, positioned as it was. So, it's somewhere in that VG to F or 16.5-17.5 range for me.
Today's bottle, six years after the last one (VG) was an obviously mature yellow, with amber tinting. Old pineapple takes the place of the floral notes from past bottles, yet the slightly musky character still remains. The old pineapple would usually take me to the Rhine, but the musky theme is the Trimbach visiting card. The mouth is medium bodied, with the expected pungent fruit being spicy, but surprising me by the power that it has suddenly developed in place of subtlety. This is very good plus and intact, taking the average of the appropriately performing bottles to 16.95, which I think is representative.
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11/21/2010 - Ingmars wrote:
Mature yellow colour. The nose is more pungent orange than it is pungent lemon. After a while, ripe white fruit and floral characters enter the picture and, later still, there is a sense of minor muskiness suggestive of gewurztraminer. Medium body. Pungent front, nice sweetness in the middle and pungent and dry at the tail. Very long and complex. Mature. Fine.
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3/28/2010 - vinum bonum wrote:
toujours très bien dans un style droit. Une valeur sûre.
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