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ChangeMe
Grape Truck Driver
Posts:33
 | | 03/07/2005 5:15 PM |
| Rieussec's second wine; $15/375 ml.
Medium golden yellow. Smooth oily feel.
Primary taste peach/apricot. A bit of tropical fruit, I think. Got a hint of mustiness (is that botrytis?).
The first night, found it a little too acid.
The second night , better balance, and a hint of resin.
Pleasant, but not earthshaking. | | | |
| ChangeMe
Grape Truck Driver
Posts:33
| | 03/10/2005 6:10 PM |
| This got better. On day 4, orange blossom and a hint of honey in the nose, fruity flavors more pronounced and complex, including a bit of honey. There's also a smell that reminds me of some organic solvent I used to work with in the lab, it's not unpleasant, want to say ethyl aaetate, but can't put my finger on it. It's NOT isoamyl acetate (banana).
A friend theorized that a second wine would get few or none of the botrytis-touched fruits - an interesting theory. | | | |
| Winetex
Austin, Texas
Master of Wine
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| | Dave Tong
Santa Clara, CA
Barrel Filler
Posts:1335
| | 12/06/2006 5:40 AM |
| Quote:
A friend theorized that a second wine would get few or none of the botrytis-touched fruits - an interesting theory.
Interesting, but wrong. The non-botrytis fruit goes to make a dry wine called R de Rieussec. It's pleasant enough and reasonable value at under $10; "Quaffable but hardly transcendent" as the saying goes. | |
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