With Jean out of town, Andy and I are batching it. Tonight was a dinner of grilled D'Artagnan wild boar sausages (that, ironically, Jean had ordered before departing to assist her niece with childbirth). I'm loathe to open any wine too good in Jean's absence, so I went down to the cellar and brought up:
2001 Josef Leitz "Einz Zwei Dry" Riesling QbA
I've had previous vintages of this wine and liked them, but on this night this wine just isn't doing it for me. A bit too dilute and bland, a bit lacking in acid, the wine doesn't have the zip and nerve that I want from Riesling. As a result, it comes across as softly sweet, not again what I look for in this bottling. It serves passably well with the (very delicious) sausage, but it's not something I'd buy again.
Mark Lipton