Tuesday I took lunch to a friend who’s recovering from an ortho inj ury. With gyros, pork souvlaki, & greek salad he opened the 2015 Cabirau "S erge & Nicolas" Maury Sec. Not sure I’ve ever had dry Maury before, this was mostly Grenache with some Syrah and Carignan. Very ripe black fru its with herbs and anise, fairly low acid. No apparent oak, I wouldn? ?t call this super-modern just concentrated and ripe, but not a style tha t really appeals to me, though well done. B-/B Wednesday was an Asian influenced dinner- lime/soy flounder, rice with furi kake, bok choy with shiitakes, sesame snow peas. Wine was the 2014 Kruger-R umpf “Scharlachberg” Riesling Grosses Gewachs, Hint of spri tz on opening. Ripe almost tropical fruit, with an interesting orange creme sicle/vanilla note (though a dry wine). Good balanced, long slatey finish, fun stuff. B+/A-
Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent wine, B a good wine, C drinkable. Anything below C means I wouldn't drink at a p arty where it was only choice.Furthermore, I offer no promises of objectivi ty, accuracy, and certainly not of consistency.