Wine from a friend

[tomstevenson]

Can you see any mention of "Bernkasteler Doctor"? The size of the cuvee (18,578 bottles) and the remark about its price leads me to suspect that it is one of three only vintages of Sekt produced from the famed Doctor vineyard. At it's time it was the greatest Sekt ever made, and I know that it was still drinking well in 1990 (fine honeyed-petrol aromas). What it's like now, who knows? It's a piece of history for me because when I first tasted it disproved the myth that cuve close is an intrinsically inferior method of making sparkling wine. It's not; Deinhard Bernkasteler Doctor Sekt was made in a tank and it has (or had!) some of the most minuscule bubbles I have ever come across.