(English) Wines of the Week: Paitin & Georg Breuer

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Paitin 2004 Barbaresco Serraboella Sorì Paitin 94
Georg Breuer 2013 Berg Roseneck Riesling Rheingau  94
by Ian D’Agata

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Paitin 2004 Barbaresco Serraboella Sorì Paitin                                    94

Deep red-ruby: the colour is actually darker than expected but back then extraction was much more than it is today, in keeping with the prevailing fashion of the time. Very rich and dense on the nose and the palate, boasting very clean dark plum, camphor, tar, blueberry, dark cherry, licorice and violet nuances. The mouthfeel is smooth, thick and rich but has a polished tannic backbone that is very obvious (one of the two barrels used to age this wine was a first-fill, and that oak still shows somewhat). Closes long and vibrant with a note of ash and repeating of red cherry. This isn’t just drinking beautifully, it’s also remarkably youthful. Drinking window: 2023-2033.

Georg Breuer 2013 Berg Roseneck Riesling Rheingau                                 94

Theresa Breuer is a still very young by some famous winemaker standards but has a long lineup of excellent wines to her credit. Her signature is a unique mix of tartness and glyceral sweetness with a sense of site always peeking through both when the wines are young and all the more when tried after an appropriate aging period. The Berg Schlossberg might be her most famous , but the always late-released (and not always in chronological order) Berg Roseneck wine of Rudesheim, while never a fruit bomb, always enchants with its minerality and juiciness plus a signature of site that is easy to recognize even when tasting blind. Her talent is that more apparent with this 2013, a vintage the weather of which can only be describe as poor: wet spring summer nothing to write home about and Rainier than rainy fall. And yet the Georg Breuer 2013 Berg Roseneck Riesling Rheingau is a gem. I offered it at dinner with one of Barolo’s leading winemakers and he couldn’t stop drinking it all night long, and that’s even with his wines there on the table for us to taste through.

Luminous golden-tinged straw yellow. Intense aromas of yellow fruit, jasmine, liquid slate, grapefruit, and chamomile on the multi-layered nose. Then multi-layered on the palate too, with juicy quality to the lively tangerine, pear, winter mint, crushed rocks and lemon peel flavours. Finishes long and very pure, with a vibrant whiplash of lemony minerality. At ten years , this still extremely youthful Riesling is lovely wine that that draws you back to the glass again and again. Drinking window: 2023-2036.

 

Ian D'Agata

伊安·达加塔在葡萄酒领域耕耘超过30年,在葡萄酒品评、葡萄酒科研写作和葡萄酒教育等方面,都取得了杰出的成果,在葡萄酒行业和葡萄酒爱好者中,享有世界性声望。作为享誉国际的葡萄酒作家,他最近的两本著作《意大利原生葡萄品种》《意大利原生葡萄品种风土》被公认为意大利葡萄酒领域的权威著作;前者荣获2015年Louis Roederer国际葡萄酒作家大奖赛“年度最佳书籍奖”,他是唯一获此殊荣的意大利葡萄酒作家,并入选《洛杉矶时报》、《金融时报》、《纽约时报》评选的“年度葡萄酒书籍”榜单;后者被《纽约时报》和美国的Food & Wine杂志提名为年度最佳葡萄酒书籍。

Ian D’Agata has been writing and educating about wines for over thirty years. Internationally recognized as an distinguished expert, critic and writer on many wine regions, his two most recent, award winning books Native Wine Grapes of Italy and Italy's Native Wine Grape Terroirs (both published by University of California Press) are widely viewed as the "state of the art" textbooks on the subject. The former book won the Louis Roederer International Wine Awards Book of the Year in 2015 and was ranked as the top wine books of the year for the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times and the New York Times, while the latter was named among the best wine books of the year by Food & Wine Magazine and the NY Times.[:]

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