Took this dessert wine to the Pig+Fig Valentine Dinner last night:
- ShenandoahVnyds Black Muscat Amador Cnty (18.5%) Plymouth 1980: Light color w/ some browning and a ton of sediment; fairly strong muscatty/floral/violets slight portish/alcoholic very aromatic complex lovely nose; bit soft fairly lush slightly sweet very strong muscatty/floral rather complex slight oxidative/oldRed flavor w/ little tannins; very long/lingering very strong muscatty finish that mirrors flavor; a quite lovely very muscatty slightly sweet dessert wine that is still in great shape; lost a lot of its original intensity. $5.89
More cikklebork from TheBloodyPulpit:
- Lee Sobon was always a big fan of dessert wines and made a lot of them over the yrs. In its youth, this wine was very sweet & very intensely muscatty. It’s lost a lot of the muscatty intensity but still in very good shape w/ no signs of its demise. A lovely complex semi-dessert wine.
I recall that the grapes for this wine came from very old Black Muscat in the Deaver Vnyd. It was not fortified, but simply a very late hrvst.
Tom