Sunday, April 20, 2008

Hirtzberger, Riesling, Hochrain, Smaragd 2004 (Austria)

Light yellow.

Jellied white fruit, ruby grapefruit flesh, pepper nose. Smells a bit like GV.

Intense grapefruit zest flavor is wild - then spicy lemon - crazy citric action. Hits the salivary glands hard. This is killer. No let up - citric flavor actually is part of the structural acid/phenolic/mineral chew. Pure, racy, packed and ridiculously long.
There's sugar in here somewhere, but I don't see it, just feel its effects. Coats every tooth in the mouth with citric/mineral chew.

Holy shit ..

$45