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| An elegant, understated riesling. |
THE first wines to pique my interest at SoHo Wines & Spirits were the German ones. I narrowed my preliminary search down to a spätlese riesling, but couldn't remember where spätlese fell into place on the German wines quality scale. I continued browsing. Coming to the California wines, I came across a bottle of Taft Street, Russian River Valley riesling, 2008. I'd remembered having a Russian River Valley (sparkling) white, while in Aspen last summer and enjoying it. After confirming with the wine seller that it was a "decent" wine, I selected the bottle and was on my way.
David was first to taste the wine and said that it was very elegant... understated--to which I agreed. It doesn't have the flavor attack that some rieslings can have and it carried just an "undertaste" of acid. (my wine professor might refer to those former wines at "clumsy"--this wine certainly wasn't clumsily sweet) And at $15.99, I think it makes quite a suitable host gift. I certainly wouldn't mind receiving one.
2 comments:
There's a difference between "dumb" and "vision problems."
Also, how was your visit on Saturday? Nothing to write about?
I think perhaps this comment has been miscategorized... If you're referring to the post about "Flip," I was not there on Saturday.
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