Willi Schaefer 1994 Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese 06 95 (Mosel-Saar-Ruwer) – Blood orange and metal with mild but impossible-to-ignore oxidation, big acidity, and caramel on the finish. Damaged in at least one, and possibly more than one, way…cork, heat, premox? Maybe a little of each? (1/08)
cmm
January 30, 2008I’m a little wimp
with my fruit slicked back,
khaki colored wine
finished like dry sack.
thor iverson
January 30, 2008I’d chuckle, but this reference — and it’s a rare thing, I know — has actually sent me into a wilderness of confusion and non-understanding.
CMM
January 30, 2008A rewording of the first lines from Zappa/Beefheart’s “Willi the Pimp”. And you thought I had finally gone over the brink…