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Vintage: 2006
Purchased: Feb 2nd 2008
Price: $23.95
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Tasting Notes:
We first tasted this wine at a Christmas dinner at
Union. I was impressed that its sweetness was well balanced by the good acidity. This is an "ice wine", but one where the grapes are artificially frozen. But at this price, it's a very good deal.
It's a thick wine with a deep golden color. The nose is classic gewurz, though the floral component and lychee are joined with white peach and honey. In the mouth, the flavors are apricot and honey. It is sweet, but not cloying so. The acid kicks in and almost feels effervescent on the tongue. This is a dessert wine I could actually just sip on.
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Vintage: 2006
Purchased: Jun 10th 2007
Price: $18.00
Number on Hand: 1
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Tasting Notes:
I opened this desert wine to have with a smore for Kathrine's birthday meal. I remember this wine being excellent when we tasted it at the winery, and it was no exception on this night either.
The amount of work that goes into this wine is amazing at this price, from the winery: "Botrytis cinerea has worked its magic on this Riesling. We hand selected Beerenauslese-only clusters infected with greater than 50% of this noble rot for our Late Harvest Riesling."
You can't touch a Beerenauslese from Germany at this price. I've never had the fortune of trying a great German one, but I can't imagine it being that much better.
This wine has a beautiful aroma of orange blossom, honey, rose, and citrus. In the mouth it's thick and opulent, with the flavors of melon and peach and a great zestiness. It is sweet, about 5% residual sugar, but it is never cloying. The acid is high enough to focus it. The finish is long and pleasant.
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Vintage: 2005
Purchased: Jan 26th 2007
Price: $6.99
Purchase Location: QFC
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Tasting Notes:
This was the final wine of our Valentine's day dinner. It was paired with pears poached in riesling, sugar and vanilla. This was a very sweet wine that worked well with the dessert. It has 4.75% residual sugar which is about twice as much as you will find in most of the riesling from Washington, which already borders on being too sweet.
The wine has big flavors of ripe pears and honey (a perfect match for my dessert). There is just enough acid in the finish to keep it from tasting like total candy. At this price, I don't think you are going to find a comparable dessert wine.
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