Trimbach
Alsace, France
Cuvee Frederic Emile Vendanges Tardives
Riesling
1990
$69.99
13.0%
Attractively bright golden hue, greenish tint, clean and shiny while also not hiding it's an older wine. The richness of the nose belies its age, rose petals, orange spritz, lime, powdered sugar and a touch wooly, fleshy kumquat, pineapple, nectarine fruit scents, sinewy. Full-bodied, thick and maybe lacking in some extract but quite powerful and long. Nice blend of lime to lemon citrus, wet wool, rubber, hay and straw to stony streamwater. The acidity is adequate but not a major force. Fetching yellow to red apple, pear, peach, apricot fruit. Has dried out of the dessert wine category with sufficient residual sugar yet to please.
90 points