Saina Nieminen
Saina Nieminen
Hans Wirsching Iphöfer Kalb Silvaner Spätlese trocken 2010 - 12,5% abv; c.20; 5 g/l RS; 7 g/l acidity
This is a strange wine. It has very ripe aromas, almost tropical, yet somehow neutral (in this it follows the Alsace Sylvaner of Loew which I am more familiar with than Frankens). The surprise is the palate. It is massively concentrated. It has the fruit and weight of a hot year. But ultimately it is a Franken Frankenstein since it is a life-enforcing wine so electric that galvanism happens in my mouth's muscles. Rarely have I had such concentration and such raciness in a single wine.
Yet I am not entirely sure about the balance of the parts. I wonder if this is one of the de-acidified wines of the vintage? And one where the de-acidification didn't quite work as wanted? But anyhow, it's close enough, and it certainly kept my attention and interest through half a bottle and made me want to try more Franken Silvaner.
A wine as weighty and ponderous - and interesting - as the book underneath it!
This is a strange wine. It has very ripe aromas, almost tropical, yet somehow neutral (in this it follows the Alsace Sylvaner of Loew which I am more familiar with than Frankens). The surprise is the palate. It is massively concentrated. It has the fruit and weight of a hot year. But ultimately it is a Franken Frankenstein since it is a life-enforcing wine so electric that galvanism happens in my mouth's muscles. Rarely have I had such concentration and such raciness in a single wine.
Yet I am not entirely sure about the balance of the parts. I wonder if this is one of the de-acidified wines of the vintage? And one where the de-acidification didn't quite work as wanted? But anyhow, it's close enough, and it certainly kept my attention and interest through half a bottle and made me want to try more Franken Silvaner.