2020 Goodfellow Family Cellars Blanc Whistling Ridge Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (7) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  2/17/2024 - Seth Rosenberg wrote: 88 Points

  Day 2: light yellow color. Nose shows golden and minerals with peach pit, apple skins, slate and stones with a significant salty note. This has matured quickly and lost most of its youthful exuberance that I loved so much. Palate shows that pretty combination of the peach pits with some apple skin and lots of stony minerality that carry into the finish - lots of apple skin and minerals on the finish but it’s a little diffuse and bitter. I’ll know to drink these within the first 6-12 months or so to catch them young. Nose - 4.5-5/6, Palate - 4.5/6, Finish - 4/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1/2 = 14-14.5/20.

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  4/18/2022 - klezman wrote:

  Fantastic stuff. Deep and rich, lots of acidity, and the Pinot Noir component adds some red fruit. Great now and should age very nicely a few years.

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  1/12/2022 - windtalker Likes this wine: 91 Points

  No formal notes.
  
  Shows riesling character with really fresh tart lemon-lime, mineral, apple, floral notes. Weightless and elevated acidity, dry. Great accompaniment for homemade avgolemono soup.
  
  Good from pop and pour but maybe fleshing out with air and as it warms up. No rush but doesn't need to be held.

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  12/25/2021 - domco wrote:

  This was really fun. Complex and delicious (not to mention a great value). Starts off crisp with some tropical fruit, finishes a bit fuller with perhaps a touch of sweetness. Great with Christmas chicken picatta and cacio e pepe.

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  10/29/2021 - Seth Rosenberg Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Got my Fall Goodfellow shipment yesterday and had to crack one of these today. This is just lovely. For me the nose is the best - potent and mouth-watering aromas of peach, red and green apple, a little banana and tropicals, brown and baking spices, lime, minerals. The palate shows more tart with lime and minerals and spices up front - very juicy and also somewhat steely. The other fruits are more in the background. I tend to like wines like this more in the feinherb style, and I do wonder how it would be with 10 g/l more RS, but this is really wonderful for what it is. You know how sometimes you anticipate what a wine will be like and it's just what you were hoping for? That's what this is. Nose - 5/6, Palate - 4.5/6, Finish - 4.5/6, Je ne Sais Quoi - 1.5/2 = 15.5/20.

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