The rich but refined middle weight flavors are less powerful than those of the Vaudésir but notably more elegant while delivering a fine bead of minerality on the impeccably well-balanced and persistent finale

Tasted at Schloss Gobelsburg in July 2021

Some of our readers might find it too vivacious and salty (while looking for hedonistic sweet wines)

An exuberantly spicy nose offers up notes of cassis

Fresh and pliant

Siaurac other_regions The rich but refined middleThe 2005 Siaurac is such a pleasant surprise. At fifteen years of age, it is at a gorgeous plateau of maturity. Cedar, tobacco, dried black cherry and worn in leather are the signatures of a wine with a fair bit of bottle age, and yet the 2005 clearly has enough freshness to drink well for another decade. There is a bit of angularity in the tannin, perhaps because of the extraction and or cooperage, but I am willing to look past that because the wine