Pieroth Herrnsheimer St Annaberg Beerenauslese Vintage 1986 VINTAGE WINES 1974

Pieroth Herrnsheimer St Annaberg Beerenauslese Vintage 1986 VINTAGE WINES 1974St Annaberg is a single vineyard within Herrnsheime in the Pfaiz region of Germany. Producing intense sweet, but balanced wines. Capable of long ageing. 1986 was an excellent vintage for the region. 70cl bottle. Abv 11. 5% Bottle condition, capsule good, label bin soiled, wine level 3cm below base of cork.

many famous families also operated merchant (négociant) arms

Chateau Montelena is one of the most prominent Napa Valleywineries

What a pleasure - not a wine I'd ever expected to try

Sauternes enjoyed an Indian summer enabling further ripening of the grapes

Commenting on how its delicious already but with three decades of life ahead of it

using indigenous (wild) yeasts

Fruit was a bit darker than the last bottle

Set up by winemaker Nicolas Potel with the aim of making wines from specific plots of old vines

Owned by the Bertrand family

Tasting Note 27/02/2021 - 91 Points

Forgot I had this bottle

As a vintage 2005 was cooler than usual and the harvest was delayed to attain perfectly ripe tannins