Price: $60 Decanted: No Temperature served at: 50F going up to low 60's over 2 hours Food Pairing: Grilled scallops in margerine, also real artisinal Alsatian munster cheese Alcohol: 13.6% (surprisingly high for a 1992, IMO) Colour: Deep golden Nose: Floral, tropical fruits, muted berries even Taste: All tropical fruits, citrus, mangoes, pineapple etc, semi-sweet, full-bodied, unctuous but not syrupy Finish: When interspersed with the scallops and the cheese, quite long & layered, the veggies shortened the effect.
Comments: This is probably a top 5 white wine ever for me, the equivalent of a great vintage 1er cru at a fraction of the price, plus extremely helped by judicious food pairing. I have not experienced such liveliness ever in an 11 year old white wine. I don't know if this is an expression of great terroir or winemaking, but that's irrelevant at the moment! Words fail me, but well worth the price nonetheless.
"Abandon all hope ye who enter here."
Posts: 1514 | Location: Boston MA | Registered: Mar 15, 2002
I knew you'd weigh in. You know, you could just as easily be named MplsAlsatianDude!
BTW, I forgot to mention tastes like minerals & wet stones, but dinner was going along so nicely, we opened up a 375ml of 1998 Paul Blanck Grand Cru Furstentum Tokay Pinot Gris to help finish off the munster, so that could've been a major contributing factor to the words failing me! This was a very good bottle, and half the price of the Z-H, a bit sweeter, but just not in the same class, IMO.
"Abandon all hope ye who enter here."
Posts: 1514 | Location: Boston MA | Registered: Mar 15, 2002
