Left my farm town (an hour east and an hour west of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) today at 3:20 am, when the first airport shuttle stops in my rural town. It snowed two days ago, so I had booked a spontaneous vacation to Siesta Key, Florida. And while I was sitting on the shuttle for 2 hours. I browsed the wine stores near Siesta Key, and landed on this bottle. A vacation treat. I can't afford to drink this regularly as so many here do!
Now, I've had Trimbach Riesling before (may he rest in peace). But just the $25USD. And I've had a few others, more expensive. I prefer dry Riesling –so far, I'm still new to wines
This one just blows my mind away. It looks like a Sauterne or Tokaji in the glass (and I apologize for the glass–rental unit). It's honeycomb and lilies and roses and oranges and lemons and petrol and river rocks and almost like my Granny is baking lemon pectins, like there's some baking spices, though I'm 99.9% sure this hasn't seen a touch of oak, from my studies. I could be wrong.
The acidity though, it just bites through that perfectly balanced fruit (which somehow pretends to be sweet)–I am second-guessing myself, is this off-dry? A Kabibett?
But no, everything else I'm tasting experiencing, confirms, it's dry! Right? I know I can look this up, but part of the fun is NOT looking it up, using inductive rather than deductive logic. Plus I don't mind being wrong at all. I'm Old. What do I care?
So when I started wine studies, a year and a half ago, I had my first Riesling and thought "meh, not for me." But as I tried and tried again, I had the low end Trimbach and thought, "hmmmm, maybe, I'll go up a notch." Which led me to the Zind-Humbrecht which wowwed me.
It's an entirely different experience. If only I could drink this weekly…
BTW, this is a lovely beach, highly recommend! (Picture 2)
by reesemulligan