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WTN: Manfred Wittmann’s Earth Band

by David M. Bueker » Sat Sep 17, 2022 11:34 pm

1989 Wittmann Westhofener Steingrube Albalonga Trockenbeerenauslese - Germany, Rheinhessen (9/17/2022)
The color of overused used motor oil. The intensity of a supernova. The sweetness of a thousand pounds of sugar reduced to a single drop. The acidity of exploding a 9 volt battery on the tongue. This was the single most concentrated wine I have ever tasted in my life, as the super-ripeness of Albalonga, combined with the hyper-botrytis of 1989 created something that could normally only be produced in a lab, with a half-life in micros-seconds. A wine that exists at the extreme end of the periodic table…
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