Hallelujah! Opened about 30 minutes before dinner. Beautiful dark ruby robe. The nose starts with some deep plum and cherry fruit overlaying some wet rocks and a real sense of density. On the palate it has finally decided to be friendly. Not gregarious, sort of grudgingly friendly. There is still plenty of structure and the wine has started to feel a bit pinote and Burgundian, but it is starting to enter its drinking window. This wine is so distinctive, it couldn't be anything other than Roilette. It's been a while coming and I must admit that I almost lost faith. I'm glad I didn't.
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2005 Roilette Tardive
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Kay Bixler
Kay Bixler
Nice when you catch them at that perfect moment.
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originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Nice when you catch them at that perfect moment.
Caught '98 Donnhoff Kirschheck in a spectacularly perfect moment last night in the cellar - finally not too sweet for its constitution, and a little earthy, creamy and grounded. Not what VLM wants to hear, of course.
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Nice when you catch them at that perfect moment.
Caught '98 Donnhoff Kirschheck in a spectacularly perfect moment last night in the cellar - finally not too sweet for its constitution, and a little earthy, creamy and grounded. Not what VLM wants to hear, of course.
Opening things after I left? Humph!
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originally posted by Jay Miller:
originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Nice when you catch them at that perfect moment.
Caught '98 Donnhoff Kirschheck in a spectacularly perfect moment last night in the cellar - finally not too sweet for its constitution, and a little earthy, creamy and grounded. Not what VLM wants to hear, of course.
Opening things after I left? Humph!
they were trying to set a cellar closing time record, and were running out of wine.
originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Nice when you catch them at that perfect moment.
Caught '98 Donnhoff Kirschheck in a spectacularly perfect moment last night in the cellar - finally not too sweet for its constitution, and a little earthy, creamy and grounded. Not what VLM wants to hear, of course.
I think I don't like the creamy part.
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Nice when you catch them at that perfect moment.
I'm not sure it is quite perfect yet, but close. Really close. Why don't y'all come down for a visit and we'll drink a magnum. Better yet, start distributing here and come for a Marvin.
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Nice when you catch them at that perfect moment.
Caught '98 Donnhoff Kirschheck in a spectacularly perfect moment last night in the cellar - finally not too sweet for its constitution, and a little earthy, creamy and grounded. Not what VLM wants to hear, of course.
It was already wonderful on January 3, 2014.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Nice when you catch them at that perfect moment.
I'm not sure it is quite perfect yet, but close. Really close. Why don't y'all come down for a visit and we'll drink a magnum. Better yet, start distributing here and come for a Marvin.
I'll bring a second magnum, to accommodate teh inevitable crowd.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
It was already wonderful on January 3, 2014.
I must have been talking to Mark when that one got poured.
Kay Bixler
Kay Bixler
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Nice when you catch them at that perfect moment.
I'm not sure it is quite perfect yet, but close. Really close. Why don't y'all come down for a visit and we'll drink a magnum. Better yet, start distributing here and come for a Marvin.
Geeze, that sounds like fun. I might still have a bottle of '95 laying around, you know, for educational purposes.
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originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by .sasha:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Nice when you catch them at that perfect moment.
Caught '98 Donnhoff Kirschheck in a spectacularly perfect moment last night in the cellar - finally not too sweet for its constitution, and a little earthy, creamy and grounded. Not what VLM wants to hear, of course.
I think I don't like the creamy part.
Barely. This was in a place.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
I thought creamy was the Yixin ideal for aged MSR Riesling.
Mike Evans
Mike Evans
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Nice when you catch them at that perfect moment.
I'm not sure it is quite perfect yet, but close. Really close. Why don't y'all come down for a visit and we'll drink a magnum. Better yet, start distributing here and come for a Marvin.
Geeze, that sounds like fun. I might still have a bottle of '95 laying around, you know, for educational purposes.
Give me a head's up if this comes to fruition. It's not that far a drive from Atlanta to Raleigh and I can contribute some combination of 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2002 Coudert Tardive as an incentive to put up with me.
Kay Bixler
Kay Bixler
Wow, our cellars must have been separated at birth or something.
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
I thought creamy was the Yixin ideal for aged MSR Riesling.
It is. The good '34s are at that stage now, as are the '47s and '49s. And the '76s seem to have been that way forever. I found a stray bottle of PG from Bollig-Lehnert's predecessor the other day, still drinking nicely.