Trimbach, Riesling Frederic Emile 375eme Anniversaire Vintage:2001 pomegranate

pomegranate

twice as long as the minimum required aging for Barolo these days

but it finished cooler

fleshy and already delicious

spice and earth scents that are trimmed in just enough wood to notice

Trimbach, Riesling Frederic Emile 375eme Anniversaire Vintage:2001 pomegranateThe virtues of the 2001 Trimbach Rieslings will by now be well known to readers, but in another year or two they will release a 2001 Riesling Cuvee Frederic Emile 375th Anniversary representing a small lot of late picked Osterberg. Smelling of honey and herbal elixir, it offers a creamy texture, refined peach, honey and mint flavors, and a vivid sense of salt, chalk and wet stone minerality. This might ultimately approach the quality of the 2001 Clos