2008 Ravines Wine Cellars Dry Riesling Argetsinger Vineyard
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Keith Levenberg Likes this wine:
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - No better riesling in the USA. I have had this bottle for about five years now. The amazing thing is that it doesn't taste like it's gotten any older - it's just even better. A knockout on the very first sip with a sizzling minerality of slate and gothic stone; I didn't know it was possible to get this kind of expression outside Germany. The style is a bone-dry GG style of riesling with acidity cutting like a samurai sword that would probably feel wincingly sharp if the wine weren't buzzing with so many other things going on. The fruit is pale and, like I said before, as fresh as a new release but calling it fruit at all may be stretching the concept, as it has the light and brightness of fruit but otherwise this wine is pure mineral, the flavors a study in stone and the texture like crunching on quartz crystals
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Comment posted by melzar:
7/21/2015 5:09:00 PM - Glad to see a review from some one who gave his wine the time in bottle it needs to show it's stuff. Drinking the highly regarded '12 now is infanticide. The basic bottling actually tastes better than the Argetsinger young.
melzar