Grans-Fassian Trittenheimer Riesling Kabinett (Mosel-Saar-Ruwer) 2001: This wine has a very typical Riesling colour.
Lovely nose, which clearly reflects the success of the vintage.
It's very ripe, displaying white fruit aromas with a tropical edge, laced
with notes of flinty, slatey minerals and flower-petals. This rich character is
followed through on the palate, which is ripe, fleshy, dense and mouth-filling,
more like a Spätlese that your average Kabinett - no surprise, as many Kabinett wines of this
vintage were in fact bottled at Spätlese ripeness levels and above. This is balanced by
fresh, zippy acidity. It's a glorious combination, which remains through a
balanced, savoury, mouth-watering finish. Very good.
(23/5/03)