2020 Petaluma Riesling Hanlin Hill

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  8/9/2023 - Michael Mackenzie Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Retasted and confirms my note of 2nd May 2023.
  Up against a Pewsey Vale Estate Riesling 2021.
  No contest, the latter being dumb, light and of little interest.
  Being charitable, the latter is a light Nahe versus an opulent Pfalz.

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  5/2/2023 - Michael Mackenzie Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Colour: light gold, green tinge, bright, clear.
  Nose: full, fresh, leads with crisp lime and perhaps a touch of pomelo, persistent with typical Clare Valley notes.
  Taste: light body, rounded, crisp acidity with lime dominant, med finish, v dry, lime.
  Overall, a good example of this wine with good vibrancy and character. Still youthful.

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  6/18/2022 - Le Huray Cellar Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Exceptional. Drinking beautifully. Great dryness and beautifully balanced fruit

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  5/12/2021 - Screwcaps Likes this wine: 93 Points

  2020 Hanlin Hill, Petaluma.
  
  From a new batch.
  
  Green apple, tending to red. Razor acidity really cleans up the wine where lime, lemon and a touch of that mandarin I saw in the other bottles.
  
  This has crunchy, crackly, acidity and no hint of browning apple or brown lime cordial seen consistently in other case of wine.
  
  Starts quite broad as is the style, but finishes tight and clean and long with a salty talc and lemon drops and rind intensity that was not there in the other batch.
  
  This bottle is sooooo much better. Vital and persistent and complex. Most of all it’s enjoyable and true to type.
  
  93, with some upside potential here. Drink now or wait 5 years for the awkward Riesling adolescence to pass and look again.
  
  Suspect that the previous box saw some heat in transit. It doesn’t explain the soapy notes I got entirely. Very kind of the supplier to provide a replacement for benchmarking, glad to see a vendor back their product.

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  4/26/2021 - Screwcaps wrote: flawed

  I wonder if this is flawed. Another drab, dilute, and flat bottle. Brown lime cordial, cottled and bruised red apple, with a hint of mandarin like soft acidity through the finish as it quickly disappears. I hope I’ve got a faulty case, or this spells very bad news for this key cuvee.
  
  Update...
  The more I try to find redeeming features in this wine the more I see the creamy, cheesy and yeasty notes. There’s aromas and flavours of soap. There’s something wrong here... and I’ve had it to lesser or greater degrees across the case. Glad to be my last botttle.

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