Schafer Frohlich, Felseneck Riesling Grosses Gewachs other_regions

Schafer Frohlich, Felseneck Riesling Grosses Gewachs other_regionsCoolish, pure and bright, with dashes of lemon oil on crushed blue slate rocks, the 2020 Felseneck GG is a Riesling to wake you up with its tart perfume. With lemon leaves and some sur lie notes on the nose, this is always precise, fresh and flinty and a picture book Riesling for the favored style of Tim Frhlich. This is as if the ocean was rushing over this vineyard that bears so much salt and power. In this case, its power and concentration shout

The 2012 Château L'If from Jacques Thienpont and Fiona Morrison has a broody

and rich with a delicious

it will age well for 15+ years

This isn’t quite as structured as the Pucelles but it is still sufficiently prominent to make evident that here too patience will be rewarded

Bodegas Fernando Remirez de Ganuza is one of Rioja’s benchmark estates

This has to be the best wine ever produced at Catena

The 2009 Caro Blend is made up of 60% Malbec and 40% Cabernet Sauvignon aged for 18 months in 80% new French oak

The tannins are a bit dry but hit the palate late

The effect is seamless and smooth

but it is already beginning to unwind

Reduction masks the underlying fruit though there is a really lovely inner mouth perfume to the punchy and gorgeously textured middle weight flavors that brim with minerality on the sappy and wonderfully complex finale that flashes first-rate length

the 2015 is very pretty