I think the ‘95 moved ahead but it’s splitting hairs. ‘95 out of magnum at Manuel’s birthday a couple years ago, I can’t recall a better bottle of Fred.
Well, as you know, I loved that wine for a long time and owned and drank north of two cases of it - and for years I found it superior to the 1989 VT - but the last couple of bottles I had (about three years ago) showed a wine a bit softer and less focused than the 89.
Had a bottle of the 2007 CFE with dinner tonight. It’s liquid steel. Bracing and bone dry. Classic CFE. Not a monument like the 1990 or 2001, but just exactly what CFE is expected to be.
As a Riesling fan I am woefully inexperienced with the wines from Alsace. Thank you for sharing these notes. It makes me even more resolved to pick some of these up at auction if they are ever available.
A long time ago, my wife and I had dinner with Hubert Trimbach several times in LA when he visited the C&E distributor here. The first time, as we drank CSH at the Hollywood Bowl, Hubert said that CSH should only be opened on national holidays. I replied that it was a good thing he lived in France, as they have national holidays weekly. Thereafter, we declared a national holiday whenever we saw him.
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