Karen Goetz
Karen Goetz
I dragged two bottles out of the cellar after letting them languish in style for a while. Curious. Both were enormously fresh.
2002 Loosen, E., Urziger Wurtzgarten, Spatlese. 7.5 % alc.
WOW.
Bright, soft pale golden color with an undertone of green glints.
Bouquet is richly minerals and fruits; some strawberries; molten royal metals (it just feels right to put it that way; remember I live in a world of metaphorical smell sensations); the whole bouquet lives at the beginning of the Periodic Table of Elements, electrons jolting around strawberry and lime; some pissy orange dried ground spice beneath a cold blast of fresh air off a stream, ripe rhubarb. The last existing glacier. Tastes like wild strawberries and guavas smashed across wet grey brook stones; lemon wet finish; acidity bright and melded into the rest of it, a crucible of freshness.
Went well with a pot of braised sweet long Italian peppers, tomatoes, garlic, gigante white beans in beef stock with an anchovy cooked into it.
2002 Loosen, E., Wehlener Sonnenuhr, Kabinett. 7.5% alc.
Oddly, a mellower wine with more acidity.
Color is slightly deeper gold than the UrzWurz; not as much green in it; fresh looking.
Bouquet is old honey over stones, cold stones, and green streamside/moist woodland vegetation; lots of yellow fruits with honeyed notes to them (old pears still on the tree); some almost-salinity; it has a tense shape to it though fruit feels rotund; a greenish bunch of aromas overall. Taste is more linear than the UrzWurz; saline and mineral character; lemony/limestone finish in my mouth that makes the saliva flow; yellow spices in tiny burst among the mineral flourish at the finish. Lovely abrupt bright finish in my mouth, a smack of citrus. A limestone salt lick hiding under fruit (as a cow or deer would enjoy). Bouquet is more unctuous than the mouth of this wine.
This puppy was less enjoyable with the dinner (above); too linear with those flavors.
2002 Loosen, E., Urziger Wurtzgarten, Spatlese. 7.5 % alc.
WOW.
Bright, soft pale golden color with an undertone of green glints.
Bouquet is richly minerals and fruits; some strawberries; molten royal metals (it just feels right to put it that way; remember I live in a world of metaphorical smell sensations); the whole bouquet lives at the beginning of the Periodic Table of Elements, electrons jolting around strawberry and lime; some pissy orange dried ground spice beneath a cold blast of fresh air off a stream, ripe rhubarb. The last existing glacier. Tastes like wild strawberries and guavas smashed across wet grey brook stones; lemon wet finish; acidity bright and melded into the rest of it, a crucible of freshness.
Went well with a pot of braised sweet long Italian peppers, tomatoes, garlic, gigante white beans in beef stock with an anchovy cooked into it.
2002 Loosen, E., Wehlener Sonnenuhr, Kabinett. 7.5% alc.
Oddly, a mellower wine with more acidity.
Color is slightly deeper gold than the UrzWurz; not as much green in it; fresh looking.
Bouquet is old honey over stones, cold stones, and green streamside/moist woodland vegetation; lots of yellow fruits with honeyed notes to them (old pears still on the tree); some almost-salinity; it has a tense shape to it though fruit feels rotund; a greenish bunch of aromas overall. Taste is more linear than the UrzWurz; saline and mineral character; lemony/limestone finish in my mouth that makes the saliva flow; yellow spices in tiny burst among the mineral flourish at the finish. Lovely abrupt bright finish in my mouth, a smack of citrus. A limestone salt lick hiding under fruit (as a cow or deer would enjoy). Bouquet is more unctuous than the mouth of this wine.
This puppy was less enjoyable with the dinner (above); too linear with those flavors.