Last night over dinner .....
Trimbach Cuvee Frederic Emile Riesling V.T. 1989 - thoroughly brilliant. This remarkable wine retains a magical mix of gorgeously expressive and honeyed late-picked Alsace riesling fruit (peaches, apricots, oranges, redcurrants and limes), a unique "minerality", superb complex bottle development (toast and petrol) and still lives on with great aplomb! Although possessing a relatively fresh inner core, fantastic counterbalancing acidity, enormous length and astute authority, I suspect this stunner should now be drunk a little sooner than later. 95
Marc Sorrel Hermitage "Le Greal" 1991 - this wine continues to keep keeping on. My second bottle since a "not ready" sign showed up on the first bottle opened quite some years ago (circa late 90's). This robust Syrah has another decade of fine drinking ahead; excellent deep colour, nose of cured and roast meats and old polished leather over dark fruit, earth, cedar and oak spice, followed by a maturing palate revealing a degree of fine resolution and smoothness although with some residual fine-grained tannin and supple acidity. Excellent finish. 91