Community Tasting Notes 11

• benjaminpaul wrote: 91 points

  December 26, 2018 - Served around 8'C initially. Strawish. Kerosene and pool toy giving this an initial bright nose going into an evolving bouquet of candies, tutti frutti and feijoa, a range of citrus in lime pickle, under-ripe orange and lemon and fresh and preserved apricot and nectarines. Lingering florals of elderflower and orange blossom too. On the palate it is well balanced between sweetness in ripe peach and white nectarine and fresh acidity in green apple and lemon/lime sorbet. Its evolution was mostly from fresh and sweet when cooler to just sweet, more flowery and cloying when warmer. I suspect that if kept it will just get sweeter, I like them more balanced so, drink now and chilled. Pretty damn good!
  
  Day three: largely similar, just more ripe apricot and peach and flowery notes.

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• vespasian wrote:

  June 25, 2018 - Pale lemon; classic nose, couldn't be anything else. Steely lime. Minerals & honeysuckle; good thread of acidity, finely chiselled. Nice refreshment and sweet on the finish. The residual sugar is balanced by the acidity but I would err on the side of drinking this sooner rather than later, before the balance slides in favour of the sugar.

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• benjaminpaul wrote: 89 points

  July 29, 2017 - Petrol, white peach, melon, roasted apricot, agave, minerality. Palate similar with sharper stone fruit and citrus (grapefruit) notes, more fruit liqueur - almost like sour worm lollies. Not a heap of acidity to me hinting that it's aging potential is in the next 5 years.

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• vespasian wrote:

  July 9, 2017 - Nicely defined ripe grapefruit and tropical fruit salad on the nose. Mineral edge; fresh grapefruit palate, tingling acidity balances the residual sugar here. Perhaps losing this balance a little on the finish which is a touch cloying.

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• ILarsen wrote: 90 points

  January 8, 2016 - The petroleum nose - lots of freshness and flowers but still a very good balance we had the wine as an appetizer and it went very well see also my last ratings.

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• Vintage 2013
• Type White
• Producer Felton Road
• Varietal Riesling
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country New Zealand
• Region South Island
• SubRegion Otago
• Appellation Bannockburn

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• In Cellars 215 (75%)
• Consumed 71 (25%)

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