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Paul S -> RE: I Just Drank ............ (7/13/2008 9:04:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: GalvezGuy
That is very interesting Paul. I have been buying these in ones and twos because I did not have any knowledge of ageability. I have had some others that are very good especially the Seppelt Riesling from my pre CT days.
There has been quite a lot of hype surrounding these drier Riesling styles recently, both the Australian version as well as the Trockens coming out of Germany, so I decided to try a few of the most reputed Aussie ones very recently like Knappstein, Grosset Polish Hill, Howard Park. I also have a bottle of Petaluma Hanlin Hill waiting to be popped. I find most of them to start of very food friendly and generally well-made wines, if a tad simple. Lots of bracing acidity. However, I also found that bottle-age does tone down the excess, trim the rough edges and add a layer or class and complexity. Given that most of them are in screw-cap now, they do seem to age pretty well while retaining that freshness which, to me, is one of their most important features.
However, call me a fuddy-duddy, but to my palate at least, these wines cannot hold a candle to the more traditional German styles, whether Kabinetts, Spatlesen or Auslesen. Not that they are bad though, just lacking the depth of complexity that a noble Riesling has.
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