Putnam Weekley
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2006 Gruener Veltliner Gobelsburg
described on a card from Everyday Wine in Kerrytown, "Gobelsburg" means "more please." Coming from Everyday wine I know it doesn't cost something silly, but as expected (coming from their collection) it tastes pretty fresh and serious, with lots of sweet Gruener Veltliner fruit, unobstructed, twisted around minerals. Really terrific.
I think it was a 1L, crown capped Gruener Veltliner from Berger, I don't remember the vintage, it might have been 2006 (or is it an NV?). It was slightly less serious than the Gobelsburg, but tasty and pleasantly fizzy, with a beery tinge to fresh green fruit.
There was a Nigl Gruener Veltliner that was empty by the time I got to it.
2002 Basserman Jordan Kabinett?, it was either a Deidesheimer (most likely I think) or Ruppertsberger. Not Forster. Anyway, it tasted like the cork, like it had been "mishandled' and warmed and allowed to extract cork flavor, plus being generally on the old side for a 2002 Pfalz. It had some fresh candied almond and fig flavor.)
1994 Gunther Steinmetz Mulheimer Sonnenlay Riesling Spatlese. Fresh without tasting suspiciously fresh. Max Ferdinand Richter bottles his "Zeppelin" from this vineyard, and it's always done right by me. This is thicker of course (as a Spaetlese) and older than any Zeppelin I've tasted. A find from Mr. Lyle Fass.
2004 Zweigelt Burgenland, Heinrich
I would rather drink this a year ago, but I'd rather drink it now than not drink it. Whole cluster falvored with bitter almonds and plums so ripe their skins fall away to the touch, consumable, in volumes greater than were available.
2007 Fleurie, Michel Chignard
Quite raw and young, understandably. After a mixed contact with a Depeuble Beaujolais, I am hallucinating chaptalization everywhere. This isn't as cute as the Depeuble, but I wonder how pure it is. The tannins seem exaggerated, but so do Desvignes' sometimes, in a different way, more integral. Time is recommended.
2004 Eisacktal Gewurztraminer, Haderburg, (Alois Ochsenreiter)
I brought this and I liked it a lot. Full of minerals. Dry, but enriched with sweetness. Only a steep quartz, granite slope could produce this wine. And only careful care in putting it in a bottle
2004? Teroldego ("Tyroldego" on the label, a play on etymology) from Nusserhof was very civilized and likeable. I was afraid it would taste forboding and rough, like it did ~ a year ago. But now it's comfortably in happy family wine territory (without the silly oak flavorings, and with more mineral sculpture.) Too bad they only make like two barrels of this stuff. (I brought this one too.)
The company was delightful, filled with kids and dogs and people without dogs but with stories about their dogs. The food was "Austro Hungarian" with boiled purple sauerkraut and bacon potato salad and Wieners and Lentil suppe!
Later we talked about politics without trying to insult or belittle each other (I was on my best behavior!)
Housejeebing: I still hasn't decided where to move. I'm thinking of Ypsilanti now though ...
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going from memory ...
2006 Gruener Veltliner Gobelsburg
described on a card from Everyday Wine in Kerrytown, "Gobelsburg" means "more please." Coming from Everyday wine I know it doesn't cost something silly, but as expected (coming from their collection) it tastes pretty fresh and serious, with lots of sweet Gruener Veltliner fruit, unobstructed, twisted around minerals. Really terrific.
I think it was a 1L, crown capped Gruener Veltliner from Berger, I don't remember the vintage, it might have been 2006 (or is it an NV?). It was slightly less serious than the Gobelsburg, but tasty and pleasantly fizzy, with a beery tinge to fresh green fruit.
There was a Nigl Gruener Veltliner that was empty by the time I got to it.
2002 Basserman Jordan Kabinett?, it was either a Deidesheimer (most likely I think) or Ruppertsberger. Not Forster. Anyway, it tasted like the cork, like it had been "mishandled' and warmed and allowed to extract cork flavor, plus being generally on the old side for a 2002 Pfalz. It had some fresh candied almond and fig flavor.)
1994 Gunther Steinmetz Mulheimer Sonnenlay Riesling Spatlese. Fresh without tasting suspiciously fresh. Max Ferdinand Richter bottles his "Zeppelin" from this vineyard, and it's always done right by me. This is thicker of course (as a Spaetlese) and older than any Zeppelin I've tasted. A find from Mr. Lyle Fass.
2004 Zweigelt Burgenland, Heinrich
I would rather drink this a year ago, but I'd rather drink it now than not drink it. Whole cluster falvored with bitter almonds and plums so ripe their skins fall away to the touch, consumable, in volumes greater than were available.
2007 Fleurie, Michel Chignard
Quite raw and young, understandably. After a mixed contact with a Depeuble Beaujolais, I am hallucinating chaptalization everywhere. This isn't as cute as the Depeuble, but I wonder how pure it is. The tannins seem exaggerated, but so do Desvignes' sometimes, in a different way, more integral. Time is recommended.
2004 Eisacktal Gewurztraminer, Haderburg, (Alois Ochsenreiter)
I brought this and I liked it a lot. Full of minerals. Dry, but enriched with sweetness. Only a steep quartz, granite slope could produce this wine. And only careful care in putting it in a bottle
2004? Teroldego ("Tyroldego" on the label, a play on etymology) from Nusserhof was very civilized and likeable. I was afraid it would taste forboding and rough, like it did ~ a year ago. But now it's comfortably in happy family wine territory (without the silly oak flavorings, and with more mineral sculpture.) Too bad they only make like two barrels of this stuff. (I brought this one too.)
The company was delightful, filled with kids and dogs and people without dogs but with stories about their dogs. The food was "Austro Hungarian" with boiled purple sauerkraut and bacon potato salad and Wieners and Lentil suppe!
Later we talked about politics without trying to insult or belittle each other (I was on my best behavior!)
Housejeebing: I still hasn't decided where to move. I'm thinking of Ypsilanti now though ...
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