Karen Goetz
Karen Goetz
Limpid and beautiful sec-tendre in my mouth on 06/05/19 after removing from cellar 05/24/19: Color is soft gold. Bouquet is cold ice-stung yellow fruits and stony cold wet gray river stones; quince fruit caught in an icy moment; bouquet is restrained; honey notes prevail and they make me wonder if the wine will be heavy in my mouth (bouquet is dense); the aromas feel like a bellows that is ready for the forge: full of itself and expanded but caught in a membrane of itself, straining slightly with its own volume/weight (but it is full of air!). Taste is honeyed crystalline mineral yellow fruits with a bass note and fine minerality; clean, fresh; a brassy note rises up at the finish in my mouth; good acidity turns the metal back into fruits; this tastes like a bell wrought from gold brass with inscriptions etched by white minerals; it is weighty in my mouth at the finish but not sloppy; a burnished sense to the taste that glows a bit at the end like a sunset, lingering; 13.5% alcohol; it is not a dry wine but it does not feel heavy with fruit, it has enough song in it to keep it weightless but fulsome; some orange dried spices at the finish; an interesting combination of fullness and crispness. Astonishing wine in its limpidity and presence without heaviness or sloppiness; it is crisp and full at the same time. Lovely.