This one is love at first sip.

Makes me think (initially) of black/raspberry herbal tea.

Nice paleness and good acidity for me. No goofy/woody oak.

Plenty of nose but I won’t call it typical PN “perfume”.

Even the color in the glass is beautiful.

Getting an education on this one is a challenge.

I can’t figure out what “Lage Steinthal” means.

I did find this which was interesting…

http://wine.blisswineimports.com/wine/johannes-zillinger/steinhall-reflexion-st-laurent-2013

If I’m reading this correctly, the wine comes
from a “second harvest”.

I don’t KNOW EXACTLY what that implies.

The paleness of the wine and the low ALC leads
me to think it means “LESS RIPE”.

That’s fine with me. The book implies that St. L
can be like a BOLD PN. This one is not bold.

I’m having smashed red potatoes that have overdosed
on rosemary. The wine actually goes pretty well.
It tames the rosemary with a little thyme maybe.

Also, for some reason, I’m able to make this wine
LAST. I must be taking fewer and smaller sips.

That’s nice.

Day Two…..

Another day of blissful slow sipping.

I’m being reminded of Languedoc wine today. Maybe from
a vintage “plagued” by “a sparsity of sun”.

There’s a richness of a blended wine and a wee
bit of stemmy greenness.

NOW I’m drooling for a Corbières wine.

How do you stop this incessant drooling?

OMG! I’m getting SLUDGE at the end of the bottle.

This is an unexpected and heavenly pleasure for a PN-like wine.

The sludge transports me to Alba.

And NOW as I sip the last few droplets off the
sludge, I am tasting cherry juice dripping off a
deer hide.

Wow.

Wonderful.