"st.helier" > wrote:

> I have been gifted a single 375ml bottle of:
>
> 1999 Ferdinand Pieroth "Wachenheimer Mandelgarten" Ortega QmP
> TBA.
>
> Whilst I view Pieroth with suspicion, any idea what I
> could/should expect?

Sorry, no.

I never ever had a Pieroth wine in my life, except for a kind of a
sales party the organized here at the Vienna Hilton over 30 years
ago where they offered quite ordinary Côtes-du-Rhône and similar
stuff at more than outrageous prices.

Ortega is one of these new German crossings that Wolfram Siebeck,
the doyen of German gastronomy critics, commented about back in
1976: "Diese Neuzüchtungen, die so schmecken, wie's beim
Bahnhofsfriseur riecht", these new breedings that taste like
the smell of a railway station barber/hairdesser shop.

Thus said, it could very well be fine -- I simply wouldn't bet on
it.

M.