2007-06-25 02:12 |
IWC: By David Schildknecht
Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar, Sep/Oct '01
This was in barrel until December of last year. There is a high percentage of harslevelu in the Tokaji Aszu wines of this vintage, because that is the variety that most nobly botrytized. Smells of honey, fresh orange and hoisin sauce. The more typical, heavily sweet florality of harslevelu emerges on the palate. Creamy, thick texture with orange and yellow plum flavors. In the finish, sheer density seems to buffer the sweetness, allowing expressive notes of flowers, orange and pink grapefruit zest and spice to sound. 1 star. (This wine incorporates, and in the process significantly improves upon, a rather Sauternes-like batch of theoretically 6 puttonyos on which I reported from barrel in Issue 86.) |