TN: 2001 Prager GV Smaragd 'Achleiten'

Mark wrote on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:24:54 GMT:

ML> 2001 Prager Grüner Veltliner Weissenkirchen Smaragd ML> 'Achleiten'

ML> color: dark yellow ML> nose: minerals, green peas and honey ML> palate: viscous mouthfeel, honey, melon, pears and as it warms, ML> Riesling-like "petrol"

ML> This was a truly fantastic wine. Thick enough to coat your ML> mouth, wiht 13% v/v alcohol, it still had a lightness about ML> it that made it an excellent match with food. The petrol ML> note was quite noticeable as the wine got warmer, something ML> that I'd never before encountered in a Grüner Velitliner. ML> My only regret is that we didn't get more of this wine...

From time to time, the terminology of wine tasters really shakes me up :-) Did you have a mispent youth siphoning gasoline from other people's cars?

James Silverton.

LOL!! Keep in mind that my adolescence was (mis)spent during the first and second OPEC oil embargoes :p Do you mean to tell me, Jim, that you've never smelled gasoline or kersosene? ;-) It really is the closest thing I can think to what I was smelling...

Mark Lipton (Be glad I didn't liken it to (S)-3,4,4-trimethyloctane)

"Mark Lipton" wrote .............

Hey Professor, for those of us who failed Organic Chemistry 101 - translation please!!!!

Austrian and "petrol" mm! diethylene glycol! hehe

I've gotten more and more impressed with Prager. Very good wines, top to bottom.I had this wine before (unsure if it was 2001 or not), loved it.