#dry riesling

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🇦🇺 🍷  It’s Wine Wednesday and I’m enjoying this lovely 2019 Wakefield Riesling (90 pts, $17) from Australia tonight. This dry Riesling comes to LCBO VINTAGES this weekend. Full review: https://bit.ly/3ffzRd8

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My night

An episode of Red Dwarf, and now wine, cheese, trying out  The Clone Wars tv show, browsing tumblr and fanfiction, and working on my own fanfiction. A swell and relaxing night.

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Hillick & Hobbs New Riesling Release

The Finger Lakes estate winery of esteemed winemaker Paul Hobbs, just announced a very interesting new wine release. Hillick and Hobbs, grows some 20 plus acres of riesling on the East bank of Seneca Lake. Past releases have been only vintage dry rieslings. On a visit last June, we tasted their 2019, 2020, and 2021 estate-grown dry rieslings. So a recent email announcement caught my attention.…

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Spring Forward

Always excited to try the new releases from this producer, and while the cab and chard are direct-hits, it’s the Riesling that really gets me slobbering in anticipation. No longer an un-sung hero of dry California versions of the variety, I think you’d be hard-pressed to find a true wine-dork who isn’t familiar. It’s a pretty small group: with Navarro, Husch, Tatomer and Maidenstoen representing…

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Over Yonder Hill

Big dusty petrol a smoky layer over thick melon and bright floral, the combination of which creates a round, walnut-skin briar tinged with vanilla, peat and coffee. Concentrated on the tongue: this is not a sharp, austere version of the variety, but a delicious, quite rich drop, sweetened by age, mouth-filling and packed with fruit. But it’s not slutty. Crisp and sharp on entry, the acid spikes…

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Riesling

One of those wines from the first sniff you’re just like, Come on, man! Absolute perfection in the glass, from the clear, legal-pad glow to the piles of petrol and grassy lychee in the nose. A dustiness coats the diesel, smoothed with banana-peel and citrus so mild it barely registers a vote. Rich and almost oily in bouquet, it still portrays the sort of clairvoyance few wines possess. As is…

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You're our only hope

You’re our only hope

I was quite pleased–and surprised–to see a Riesling in this producer’s new line-up. Typically, they are forgotten or heritage varieties from out-of-the way vineyards, and this wine is a nice addition. Fairly dark golden and smelling thick and briary. Is there a bit of skin-contact going on here? A little reduction and thick tropical and caramel on the nose, balanced nicely with stemmy citrus…

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