2006 Château des Charmes Riesling

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 87.6 points

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  12/16/2016 - owr Likes this wine: 87 Points

  dried apple and pear with petrol creeping in the back door, it has cool vintage character with dried apricot on the finish - I'd happily keep drinking this one

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  3/18/2015 - owr Likes this wine: 87 Points

  Nose of wildflower honey and bosc pear skin (which seems quite apropos for wines from this house). Palate has a fresh mineral quality with a little green apple, both pulp and skin, but it's really the wet stone that shines thru from mid-palate to finish.

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  7/24/2012 - owr Likes this wine: 89 Points

  (Re-Tasted July 2012) ... It truly is a summer for Riesling. With the hot weather we've been having I'm not only digging out the new bottles, but also some of the old ones, to see how they are doing. My original review says to lay this one down and watch it develop, and develop it has, into something lovely. The fruit is still very much intact with apricot, apple and pear notes especially on the nose, but they are intact on the palate too; the acidity has stayed right where it needs to be to keep that lovely freshness and there's even a limeade, honey and lemonade note to the finish. This is still one terrific wine that shows no signs of going anywhere, downhill that is, it seems to be holding its own quite well. Wish I had a few more bottles so I could find out where it is going - cause I'd love to take the ride with it (and wouldn't you know it I do - we'll check back in a year or two).

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  10/14/2010 - jsimmons wrote: 87 Points

  A solid dry Riesling, lemony, full, explosive acidity, a bit of minerality, and some petrol. Not mind-blowing, but it'll keep pace with anything from Germany at its price point.

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