WTN: Nice young Pouilly-Fumé & mature Rheinhessen

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

• 2007 André Dezat Pouilly-Fumé Domaine Thibault - France, Loire Valley, Upper Loire, Pouilly-Fumé (1/5/2009)
  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.
• 1993 Louis Guntrum Oppenheimer Sackträger Gewürztraminer Auslese - Germany, Rheinhessen (1/5/2009)
  
  
  
  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.

Posted from CellarTracker

[David M. Bueker]

I'm glad you had a good experience with the Guntrum. They are the source of the absolute worst eiswein I have ever tasted.

Ah, but you see - I like bad wine!

[David M. Bueker]

Ah, but you see - I like bad wine!

Not this bad...it was ugly stuff.

I'm glad you had a good experience with the Guntrum. They are the source of the absolute worst eiswein I have ever tasted.

That's interesting, David. I had the 2004 Louis Guntrum "Penguin" Eiswein last year. My note reads - "Lemon Pledge spilled into a glass of rotting fruit juice." I don't remember much about the wine, but I must not have cared for it. I think that someone brought it to a dinner that my wife and I attended.

[David M. Bueker]

That's the same wine (not the same vintage) that I hated so much.

Not Riesling, right? I remember having a horrible dessert wine from Guntrum, I think Huxelrebe or Sylvaner, though I think it was a BA. What I remember was thinking it was bizarre not having a vineyard designate on a high pradikat, then discovering it wasn't even Riesling.