This one was brought in by a guest over the weekend, who drank half and then gave me rest. I’ve tasted this wine a few times over the years and always found it really interesting, but never with this much age. The color was an intense orange color, almost the color of amaretto. On the nose was peach candy, orange zest, and saffron, and the palate was super lengthy with big stone fruit notes with a streak of minerality, I was shocked by how much acid was still there.
I think the ‘06 was a little past its prime, but it was super cool to taste anyway .
by Mrvinonoir
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I’ve got some 90s Rieslings that aren’t that yellow!
Hate to be the one but… premox?
Looks like Franco Terpin made that 😉
I remember when I opened a bottle of that by accident one day. I thought it was the regular.
Wouldn’t expect an ‘06 to be that oxed-_wow that looks destroyed.
This is not how the wine should look. Old judge is stupendous and def not that color when well stored
This does seem premoxed but I had a 2007 Judge a year or so back and while it wasn’t exactly premoxed it had some of those characteristics which made me wonder if there was just something about The Judge that lent itself to this type of profile. Could have also just been a bad bottle too.
Makes me wonder what a non premoxed one would show