Trimbach, Riesling Frederic Emile 375eme Anniversaire Vintage:2001 pomegranate

pomegranate

twice as long as the minimum required aging for Barolo these days

Brilliant straw-yellow

but it finished cooler

with restrained tannins and no rough edges

Trimbach, Riesling Frederic Emile 375eme Anniversaire Vintage:2001 pomegranateThe 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