Karen Goetz
Karen Goetz
Opened on 5/14/09 after cellar storage since vintage purchase. 12.5% alcohol(this was a Louis-Dressner Imports bottle; others are K. Lynch).
Color is garnet in the glass with cherry red notes around the edges/rim in glass.
Bouquet is quiet on first impression; over several hours and then over a couple of days it becomes tantalizing: delicate notes of red woodsy spices and red briary mineral salts; like bleeding tiny red/black prickers on a red currant branch; redness is not so much soil as mineral-stained; muted fruits; eventually, some high, wiry fine black notes like old, dense twisted black vines or even dark soil very finely sifted into blackness; constant high red sour citric/spicy note in a rain of red fine precipitation (mist); black tea notes emerge (Darjeeling); coffee aroma has devolved into black soil, delicate; red tiny citric spices and red fine music slipping in as hard, voluptuous notes that race away like quicksilver; final impression is of hard, fine-grained red pigments pressed into a liquid lattice.
Taste is red and softly bright, with with black coffee notes in the aftertaste; good minutiae of fiery muted tannins and the acidity is bright and tasty; red and dark-fruited plums are gentled and they edge into the coffee and red spice finish; the fruits remain muted over several days and the acidity stays fresh and almost creates a miniature palette; a backdrop curtain edge; this wine for me is a red, mineral silk slipper held in the hand after being left behind by a beautiful stone woman.
This bottle was tasted over 3 days and it became more interesting: ambient temperatures were 75' F. and the wine held on to it's tiny freshnesses.
Color is garnet in the glass with cherry red notes around the edges/rim in glass.
Bouquet is quiet on first impression; over several hours and then over a couple of days it becomes tantalizing: delicate notes of red woodsy spices and red briary mineral salts; like bleeding tiny red/black prickers on a red currant branch; redness is not so much soil as mineral-stained; muted fruits; eventually, some high, wiry fine black notes like old, dense twisted black vines or even dark soil very finely sifted into blackness; constant high red sour citric/spicy note in a rain of red fine precipitation (mist); black tea notes emerge (Darjeeling); coffee aroma has devolved into black soil, delicate; red tiny citric spices and red fine music slipping in as hard, voluptuous notes that race away like quicksilver; final impression is of hard, fine-grained red pigments pressed into a liquid lattice.
Taste is red and softly bright, with with black coffee notes in the aftertaste; good minutiae of fiery muted tannins and the acidity is bright and tasty; red and dark-fruited plums are gentled and they edge into the coffee and red spice finish; the fruits remain muted over several days and the acidity stays fresh and almost creates a miniature palette; a backdrop curtain edge; this wine for me is a red, mineral silk slipper held in the hand after being left behind by a beautiful stone woman.
This bottle was tasted over 3 days and it became more interesting: ambient temperatures were 75' F. and the wine held on to it's tiny freshnesses.
