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Why should a 1989 Auslese be bitter?
Kevin Curran, Washington DC: I recently opened a bottle of 1989 Burrweiler Schäwer Riesling Auslese from Herbert Mesmer. The wine was still sweet, but there was an unpleasant bitterness to go with the rather one-dimensional flavour. A friend suggested the bitterness is from botrytis. I have drank many more 1990 Auslesen than wines of that Prädikat level from 1989, and I have not encountered bitterness in any of the 1990s (which are consistently first rate Rieslings). In your experience, do Spätlesen and Auslesen from a year marked by botrytis age differently than if from a year such as 1990 when botrytis was rare? Might...
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