2009 Felton Road Riesling

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 87.8 points

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  12/16/2017 - Wozza Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Nicely balanced, sweet off-dry Riesling from the always excellent Felton Road, Bannockburn (NZ).
  
  Feels and tastes like a German Riesling. Its sweet lime, honey and green apples sitting nicely with some spicy zing, steel, creaminess and some florals. There's a quartz-like fresh cut upfront. But that quickly gives way to an oily, sweet mid palate, and a fine (if short) breezy finish that has a touch of dry chalkiness to it.
  
  I loved the sweet honeyed, citris zing. The unctuousness. And fresh, dry finish. I'd have loved some more zip from the acidity. Maybe this was there in its earlier days. Nonetheless, it's an interesting, well made food wine that would make a perfect end to a meal. Drink 2011-2019. A Wozza 91/100 (3.4/5.0) for me.

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  11/28/2016 - moods wrote: 87 Points

  Decent wine. Rich, dense, ripe lime fruit. Maybe a touch cloying on the mid palate with all the sugar. Acidity comes thru on the finish. It's a big n bold one though.

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  1/23/2014 - MindMuse wrote:

  Drunk last month, it showed excellent purity, citrus, minerality.

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  11/21/2012 - Darren747 wrote: 90 Points

  Some less than glowing reviews for this wine on CT so far but it's certainly one that I've enjoyed this evening. Yes it has plenty of RS, 53g/l apparently but the wine remains light on its feet and retains verve with a tingling acidity. Citrus, lime, grapefruit, pineapple dominate the flavour spectrum and there's a mere whiff of kerosene on the finish. This is enjoyable Riesling and there's no hurry to drink up, this has plenty of development to come.

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  7/16/2012 - Gargantua wrote:

  Showing very Spatlese-y tonight. Lovely alluring wine that would be perfect if it had a chunk of glaring, shining minerality in it.

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