2011 Ridgeview Bloomsbury
Community Tasting Note
forceberry wrote:
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - Youthful pale green color. Light and refreshing nose with tart citrus fruit tones, some unripe apple and a hint of leesy yeast character. The wine is steely yet quite fruity with intense and bone-dry flavors of lemony citrus fruits, some yeasty tones and a hint of apple peel bitterness. The racy acidity lends a very piercing, incisive structure to the wine. The mousse feels extremely small, smooth and creamy. The finish is intense yet light and bone-dry with quite long flavors of steely minerality, sour apple candies, some tart lemony citrus tones and a hint of apple peel bitterness.
A very lean, structured and quite austere quality fizz with a lot of intensity but fairly little complexity. Overall the wine is just too sharp and taut to be particularly enjoyable on its own and it really screams for food or further cellaring. I concur with the point made by the user finewinebuff57: this feels just too youthful and lacking the depth and richness brought by sufficiently long aging on the lees. The British sparkling wines are normally so very lean and austere by nature, the seem to scream for that richness and complexity prolonged bottle-aging on the lees brings - and the lack of it really makes this wine feel too harsh and aggressive. I guess the wine might still continue to develop in a cellar and probably will drink a lot better with another 4-5 years on it, but I still wish the British sparkling wine producers would keep their wines as long as it is necessary for the wine to come across as palatable.
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