This Friday, we had the Krauße Schwarzer 2008 again, this time with a few international wine friends, including The Winesleuth.
The wine was tasted blind and I specifically asked the audience to be as critical with their comments as possible. This is what they said: 'Cherry cola' (Denise on the bouquet); 'very nice nose'; 'the nose is so charming, you expect a little more from the palate'; 'lovely nose, fragrant'; 'could have a little more concentration on the palate'; 'certainly not an unpleasant drink'; 'light enough to be a rosé'. When I revealed the origin of the wine, everyone was quite surprised to hear that the winemaker was just about twenty years old, and there was even more surprise that Pinot Meunier went into the wine as most of us had only come across it as grape used for sparkling wines.
A second opinion
This Friday, we had the Krauße Schwarzer 2008 again, this time with a few international wine friends, including The Winesleuth.
The wine was tasted blind and I specifically asked the audience to be as critical with their comments as possible. This is what they said: 'Cherry cola' (Denise on the bouquet); 'very nice nose'; 'the nose is so charming, you expect a little more from the palate'; 'lovely nose, fragrant'; 'could have a little more concentration on the palate'; 'certainly not an unpleasant drink'; 'light enough to be a rosé'. When I revealed the origin of the wine, everyone was quite surprised to hear that the winemaker was just about twenty years old, and there was even more surprise that Pinot Meunier went into the wine as most of us had only come across it as grape used for sparkling wines.