The secrets of youth!!!

No, I have not found the way to immortality nor any anti-aging drug. It was merely how I worked out the story behind the above bottle, which was amazing youthful when I tasted it at this year's wine fair. The secret to the 21 year old wine tasting rather like a vintage younger than say 10 years old could actually be seen on the label. The A.P.Nr. gave it away. The series of number all mean something specific and the last double digit was the year of testing (to be assigned an APNr) and it was 2005. So how come a 1990 Riesling Spatlese was tested (which is usually done at bottling) in 2005, when it was 15 years old? The two most likely explanation was either that the owner wanted to keep some wine for aging, or that someone forgot about the wine. The latter was what happened here. So this wine was only bottled in 2005. It only had 6 years of bottle age, so that's why it had little signs of bottle age.

BTW, I had met a similar situation before, with a wine from JJ Prum at the wine dinner in 2001 that I had already blogged about. However I was not able to find out why a wine of the 1980s was tested much later that time.