2009 Felton Road Riesling Block 1

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 88.5 points

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  3/31/2022 - graemeg wrote:

  {screwcap. 13.5%} Mid yellow-gold. Moderately developed, with an apple and honey sweetness to it that eventually gently prickles to a medium length finish of gently browning stewed fruit, seemingly off-dry but then concluding with a little astringency. Lacks the last word in complexity, but otherwise a nicely medium weight example of the new world offering a spatlese style, albeit in a clunkier, but legitimate, style. Will still keep a while quite happily.

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  3/25/2017 - graemeg wrote:

  {screwcap, 13.5%} What might have been... Mid yellow, lively, fresh, but developing nose, largely of gentle, pure honey. No botrytis, just sweet riesling fruit. It's near medium-weigh, a bit spatlese-ish, with lovely balance of acid, fruit and sweetness. The 'but' is just the fact that it seems a bit simple and one-dimensional in flavour, and that the finish, although beautifully balanced and tasty, is just a bit short for my liking. A wine short of greatness, but lovely to drink, or even hold. Maybe things will change...

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  6/24/2011 - CamWheeler wrote: 89 Points

  Taste of New Zealand (Sydney, Australia): Swirling spices, florals and a small amount of citrus on the nose. Spatlese type sweetness on the palate, it could perhaps do with a touch more acid to balance things out. For me, I like this level of sweetness and enjoyed the wine, but others were less impressed.

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