Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Felsenberg GG 2007


Someone brought this bottle of GG Riesling to a dinner last week. As with my previous experience, it seems that Felsenberg is the name of the vineyard; the name of the village was on the "back label", which is the label that matters in Law as it contained the legally required information. The village in this case is a famous one, Schlossbockelheim. Although I had not encountered either the grower or the site, I had great hopes because it is a GG Riesling, and my expectations were well satisfied. An old gold colour, the wine had a sweet peachy honeyed nose. Technically a dry wine (with little residual sugar) but with such fruitiness that it seemed slightly sweet on entry, displaying prune and honey notes on the palate well supported by a plummy pruney acidity as backbone. Very nice!!

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