1983 Verwaltung der Staatlichen Weinbaudomäne Trier Ockfener Bockstein Riesling Spätlese

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  8/22/2010 - stevetimko wrote:

  This turned out to be a huge surprise and maybe it's not a profound wine but it's the best riesling I've had in a while.
  The color is of a dark brown apple cider, but there's little apple flavors in this wine. Some diesel on the nose, but not a lot. It just oozed slate on the nose. Also, there was a touch of honey.
  The sweetness aged out of the palate. Again, just screaming minerality along with some flowers and a touch of brown sugar. But the thing that was so beautiful was the depth and harmony of this wine. It had aged so beautifully and everything came together with such balance. I know nothing about this wine and I wonder if it was always this good or if it was just an average wine that incrementally improved each year it was in the bottle for about 26 years.
  Wines like this are why wine geeks collect and age wines.
  K&L had five bottles of 1983 spatlese from four producers that become available from a private collector and I bought them. It turns out this bottle was produced by the government of Rheinland-Pfalz. I had low expectations for this wine because I believed a government couldn't produce a good wine. I grabbed it for a dinner at Bodega Bistro and had I realized it was the government-produced wine I probably would have put it back and grabbed one of the others. But it turned out to be a nice bottle. The wine geeks at the table all loved it. Balfour Imports.

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