Tuesday, 13 May 2014

A red spatlese trocken from Kruger Rumpf

I had a Spatlese trocken red wine from Kruger Rumpf the other day at a Chinese style celebration dinner. Initially looking at the label (without looking at the colour of the contents) I thought it was one of those white blends (cf Liebfraumilch) but it turned out to be a red, presumably from Pinot Noir or its Precoce version. I wondered about the storage conditions for the wine, because it did show signs of tiredness even though it was only 7 years old. A ruby garnet colour, the nose was sweet fruity with a hint of wood. The palate was sweet acid and plummy rather than berry, with the plumminess extending onto the acid backbone which was giving good support.

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