Trimbach, Riesling Frederic Emile 375eme Anniversaire

Trimbach, Riesling Frederic Emile 375eme AnniversaireThe 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

There is a similar reserve to the distinctly focused and linear flavors that enjoy a seemingly unlimited reserve of dry extract that renders the fine-grained and silky tannins almost invisible at present though I suspect that they will become much more apparent once the baby fat melts away

jamboree joyful

balanced and impressively persistent finish

if not decades

it should ideally not be opened in the next 10 years

lime blossom and grilled nut

In top vintages there can be as many as three selections of Barbaresco (Barbaresco Paje

Fresh acidity

I would have guessed this was 14

And extended aeration did manage to dissipate the reduction though I underscore that it required two days of air to accomplish this

The noticeably more refined barely middle weight flavors exude evident minerality on the delicious and equally refreshing finish

This isn’t quite as tight as the Chatenière but it should also reward a few years of bottle age