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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
November 28, 2015 - It is cold it is november - and the wine is still doing very well - clearly potential here - likes the combination of the high sweetness - freshness and flowers - and then the petroleum nose
July 15, 2015 - It is summer and I like it - see my latest ratings
July 12, 2015 - had the last bootle just some days ago so not a lot to add - still a very good experience
July 3, 2015 - very pleasant wine with a rather high sweetness medium acidity - a lot of freshness and flowers- still a good balance and a good structure - be interesting to se how it develops.
January 17, 2015 - Faith in new world riesling restored.
This is a glorious wine! Very evolved nose... plenty of petroleum combined with honey, lime and wet stones. Much deeper and more intense than most at this price and youth. In the mouth this just explodes with sweetness, but so lively and fresh. Clean and precise. I'd say this is approaching auslese levels of sugar and general quality.
Fabulous stuff.