Weingut Barbara Öhlzelt
Heiligenstein Riesling
Zöbing, Kamptal, Niederösterreich, Austria
Wine 3/12 (Riesling)
Nose has cold yellow apple, honey, wet oak firewood, peach slice, warmed tropical fruits and crushed sandstone.
Palate has tart yellow cherry, baked yellow apple, lemon zest, green table grapes and minor oak influence, nice acidy, slight creamy notes and a long finish.
Once again it is notable that I have made one full trip around the Sun earlier this week. We had our small, social bubble team to the house for celebrating my getting older and somewhat less flexible in advancing age...Whatever will be done when I creast 50? Well, at least it's several years until needing manage that concern.
We enjoyed well-salted Ribeyes (Kinderhook Farm - Valatie, NY, prepared 48h in advance), turning to a beautiful medium-rare after a mere 12m of grill time and smashed, small red potatoes with capers (yeah try it, don't judge me yet). None of the bottles were particularly planned as 'steak wines'; we didn't care as it really was a wine nerd-fest of grapes/regions, from Burgenland, Austria to Brittany, France. Wine and food were on individual plateaux today. This was the vom Boden Spring Experience case, expertly curated by Stephen Bitterolf, and well received by our tasting crew.
Wine 3/12 (Riesling)
Nose has cold yellow apple, honey, wet oak firewood, peach slice, warmed tropical fruits and crushed sandstone.
Palate has tart yellow cherry, baked yellow apple, lemon zest, green table grapes and minor oak influence, nice acidy, slight creamy notes and a long finish.
Once again it is notable that I have made one full trip around the Sun earlier this week. We had our small, social bubble team to the house for celebrating my getting older and somewhat less flexible in advancing age...Whatever will be done when I creast 50? Well, at least it's several years until needing manage that concern.
We enjoyed well-salted Ribeyes (Kinderhook Farm - Valatie, NY, prepared 48h in advance), turning to a beautiful medium-rare after a mere 12m of grill time and smashed, small red potatoes with capers (yeah try it, don't judge me yet). None of the bottles were particularly planned as 'steak wines'; we didn't care as it really was a wine nerd-fest of grapes/regions, from Burgenland, Austria to Brittany, France. Wine and food were on individual plateaux today. This was the vom Boden Spring Experience case, expertly curated by Stephen Bitterolf, and well received by our tasting crew.
Rich in nose and mouth, full body, elegant.
Rich in nose and mouth, full body, elegant.
Feb 12th, 2018
TableWine had this 6 years ago
TableWine had this 6 years ago
Jul 13th, 2018