Rheingau - visiting Leitz & Breuer (Rudesheim): {cork, 13.5%, €35} As inevitably happens after I gently chide a winery for still sealing their wines with tree bark, they defend their closure trials, declare that the cork-sealed wines developed better, and claim they are provided with the very finest corks. Two or three wines later, as in this case, one of those wines turns out to be stuffed with TCA. This wasn’t hopelessly ruined, but was just scalped and musty enough to have the CD chappie shaking his head fairly quickly and putting the bottle aside. It was the only one there, so no proper note here. Death to corks! You know, I really tried to ‘taste through the taint’ as people were exhorted to do, when we were enslaved to reactionary tradition, at the expense of all else. Look, I think there’s a pretty decent pinot under this. But, you know, it’s hard to judge an F1 car with two missing spark plugs…
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7/9/2022 - onboisduvin Likes this wine: 92 Points
Burgundy style. Very saliva-seducing. Nice to drink in a hot summer day with a chilled galss.
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6/21/2018 - onboisduvin Likes this wine: 92 Points
Another example of good German pinot noir. Light but with weight in the mouth. The nose is attractive too--mostly fruits less floral. A joy to enjoy!
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11/21/2017 - graemeg wrote: flawed
Rheingau - visiting Leitz & Breuer (Rudesheim): {cork, 13.5%, €35} As inevitably happens after I gently chide a winery for still sealing their wines with tree bark, they defend their closure trials, declare that the cork-sealed wines developed better, and claim they are provided with the very finest corks. Two or three wines later, as in this case, one of those wines turns out to be stuffed with TCA. This wasn’t hopelessly ruined, but was just scalped and musty enough to have the CD chappie shaking his head fairly quickly and putting the bottle aside. It was the only one there, so no proper note here. Death to corks! You know, I really tried to ‘taste through the taint’ as people were exhorted to do, when we were enslaved to reactionary tradition, at the expense of all else. Look, I think there’s a pretty decent pinot under this. But, you know, it’s hard to judge an F1 car with two missing spark plugs…
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