Snowpocalypse

[Cliff]

Austria seemed like a logical choice. So I opened a 2001 Nigl Riesling Privat. The chicken didn't cooperate, so the wine got maybe 2.5 hrs in the decanter before dinner. Color was alarming, but the wine was fantastic. The best bottle yet, without even a hint of oxidation.

 

[kirk wallace]

Good to hear!

 

[Levi Dalton]

Have definitely been thrown by the color of this wine in the past.

 

[kirk wallace]

Cliff, looking for something to open while cooking, I found '96 Nigl Urgesteins-Riesling (kremsleiten). I expected shrill and close to death. Instead it is ripe and botrytis-y, deep golden in color, but shiny-clear and without any oxidation. Not so much an aperitif, but really good. Needs a smoked goose breast.

 

[Cliff]

Glad to hear it! I've never had one of those.

 

[kirk wallace]

I might have a bottle or two left ...

 

[Morgan Harris]

Regarding color: as in too dark or too bright?

 

[Cliff]

You mean my comment about "alarming"? It was pretty dark.

 

[Zachary Ross]

The one L lama, he's a priest
The two L llama, he's a beast
And I will bet my silk pyjama
There isn't any three L lllama.

- Ogden Nash, to which a fire chief replied that occasionally his department responded to something like a "three L lllama."