Young Pouilly-Fum; old Rheinhessen

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Saina Nieminen

Saina Nieminen
Some Coregonus lavaretus (Common Whitefish) with a beurre blanc sauce was a nice dinner with the Dezat.

Andr Dezat Pouilly-Fum Domaine Thibault 2007

24,90; 12,5% abv. Very pale. The nose is quite charming: elegantly green aromas, but not underripe or aggressive, strongly mineral. Tremendous citrussy zip and energy, very youthful and lively, substantial yet light. It is strongly mineral on the finish. I enjoyed it tremendously. Sadly it is imported by a company who has quite outrageous markups so it is a rare delight. And sadly we don't see many other Sauvignon Blancs here that I might enjoy.

Louis Guntrum Oppenheimer Sacktrger Gewrztraminer Auslese 1993

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15,06/0,375; 11% abv; 45g/l RS; 7,5g/l acidity; A.P. 4 382 083 29 96. Auburn. A slightly singed, old nose with seemingly quite a bit of botrytis (citrus peel), crystallized fruit and copper: it is more of aged aromas than fresh fruit but there is a touch of dried rose leaves, too. It is drying up and doesn't taste as sweet as I would have imagined from the technical sheet. But it has a refreshing acidity and still has aged fruit in it so for me it is drinking beautifully (some will no doubt find this too old). Delightfully autumnal.
 
This is so sad. Good Lord, I thought: 25 for Domaine Thibault?! That sounds like an awful lot. And one of your better choices? But then, I am all too familiar with captive-market syndrome.
 
Well, we do have Dezat's Sancerre available which I have usually enjoyed but the price is the same. We don't get the great names that everyone here talks about and frankly I'm not too keen on the NZ lookalike from Bourgeois that is easily available.

Is Dezat not terribly appreciated by disorderlies? Of course I simply can't have wide experience with the grape in such a country as Finland, but it seems to be a very charming wine almost every year.
 
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