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Joseph Bembry
Wine Lover
Posts:4876
 | | 11/20/2002 4:45 AM |
| Had this wine tonight courtesy of a friend at Acacia in Lawrenceville, NJ. Wine was accompanied by a seafood sampler of tuna, eel, calamari, shrimp, and oyster each done in a different Asian style. Some of them included Thai-like heat. Wine tasted out of Riedel Vinum Chardonnay stems.
Wine is just shy of golden yellow. Aromas of pear and honeysuckle are very lovely. Unfortunately the palate didn't keep up with the nose. Medium bodied with some decent pear flavors, but not very deep. Nice food wine, but no blockbuster here. jb Rating 85.
I think this wine retails for about $13. QPR C+
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| Jeremy Matthew
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2067
| | 11/25/2002 11:55 PM |
| Was this the "Y" series viognier or the standard labeled version. I find that the "Y" series is quite a well rounded wine with moderate to deep fruit chracters.
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| Joseph Bembry
Wine Lover
Posts:4876
| | 11/25/2002 11:58 PM |
| I didn't see a "Y" label designation on the bottle. So I assume it is the regular. BTW, welcome to VinoCellar.com, Jeremy. Glad you found us. Looking forward to your help w/ NZ TN's
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| Seek
Upstate NY
Wine Thief
Posts:2772
| | 11/26/2002 12:39 AM |
| | I echo jb's feelings, welcome to the vinocellar.com community. We can never have enough NZ and Aussie experts. | | | |
| Winetex
Austin, Texas
Master of Wine
Posts:10802
| | 11/26/2002 8:34 PM |
| We had this wine recently with Chinese food. It merited an 86-87 on my scale. It tasted better than the $8 I paid for it.
I wonder if the food choice is key on these kinds of wine. Some spices may kill certain notes in the wine. Personally I tasted grapefruit and some apricot along with a stony minerality that JB didn't mention. | | | |
| Jeremy Matthew
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2067
| | 11/26/2002 11:02 PM |
| I think the food choice with aromatic wines is very important and can affect the character of the wine incredibly.
I've noted with Viognier that dishes with garlic, ginger and high salty characters seem to bring out the best (I guess Asian food fits with this).
Also I think serving temperature can affect the fruit characters dominance over the alcohol's ability to create an edge of "bitteness". | | | |
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