2000 Johann Schwarz "The Butcher" Zweigelt Rosé trocken

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90 points

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  8/30/2018 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: flawed

  Some sweet red fruit on the nose with a porty overtone.
  Rough, hard, astringent on the palate. If not dead, in a hospice waiting for its last minute

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  9/30/2014 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 89 Points

  Deepish, slightly orangey salmon-pink. Deep, sweet red fruits, sweet grapefruit and vanilla on the nose with some raisining. Big. I mean BIG in the mouth. Lots of sweet, slightly raisined red fruit, but it's one dry. Absolutely enormous length. Amazingly, it carries its massive 16% alcohol very well, and it's lost the alcoholic heat of its youth.
  Tasted blind, you would undoubtedly put it as a 10, or maybe even 20 year old tawny port.
  It's still pure lunacy, but it's getting a lot more drinkable now.

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  10/11/2010 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 88 Points

  Deep, more red than rosé, though in a very small amount in the glass, there's a slightly orangey, dark onion skin colour, which suggests (not unsurprisingly) that this is now showing a bit of age. Deep, dark red fruits on the nose with a fair bit of sweetness and just a touch of vanilla and rose perfume. Feeling a touch dried out on the palate, with some raisining, this is now starting to feel quite like an aged Rivesaltes ambré vin doux naturel, something which the 16% alcohol does nothing to dispel. This is the first 16% abv, ten year old Zweigelt rosé that I've ever had. Not unpleasant, but certainly a bit bonkers. Somewhere between rosé amarone, Croft Pink and a southern French vin doux naturel.

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  8/22/2004 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 91 Points

  The Fourth Great Liverpool Off-line (New Brighton): A very unusual nose - a touch steely, quite intense - warm cherries and stewed strawberry. Big round and full in the mouth. A bit hot, maybe, and very alcoholic. Big fruit. Very complex and really quite a bruiser. If drunk blindfolded, you would assume this was a red wine. Very Good Indeed.

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  6/1/2004 - andrewstevenson.com wrote: 92 Points

  2000 Schwarz The Butcher, Zweigelt Rosé trocken. Neusiedlersee, Erzeugerabfüllung Johann Schwarz "with friendly help of Mr K.", 16% (!), 37.5 cl, (Noel Young)
  A curious rubbery wax capsule.
  Deep salmon pink. Very curious nose - citrus and vanilla with a hint of sweet VA and some raisins. Big and heavy on the palate. Good fruit, with a bit of sweetness and high alcohol. Spice and soft tannins on the finish. Much improved with food. Suggestive of a rosé amarone and really quite a mad wine! Very Good Indeed.

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