2004 Cave Spring Riesling CSV Cave Spring Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 87.3 points

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  10/14/2023 - SH Wu wrote: flawed

  This feels like a once solid riesling that is past peak. This may have been a bad bottle, I am not sure. The wine making style and drinking windows from other suggest it should not be this far past peak.
  
  On the nose, you are hit with petrol, grapefruit and melon. The fruit had a vibrancy and concentration that suggested at a promising palate.
  
  Unfortunately, the palate was a bit hollow as the fruit had completely disappeared. Lemon oil bitterness and mineral salinity mark a dry finish.
  
  I do want to revisit this producer, as it was so promising on the nose. If the juicy melon concentration was present in the palate, it would've been a very nice wine.

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  4/24/2017 - larryw Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Light gold in colour; melon, honeysuckle and white flowers on the nose; well balanced; some apple on palate with nice, full finish. This is a keeper that's gotten better year after year.

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  2/2/2011 - vegasoenophile wrote: 86 Points

  Dry riesling with slate, mineral and lime tones. Clean. Nice.
  - Tasted at Wine Spectator New World Wine Experience 2010

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  2/16/2007 - ColinR wrote: 88 Points

  Straw yellow; lemons, limes, minerals; citrusy, minerally, slightly buttery, light-medium body, decent structure, tangy acidity, lingering finish.
  Very minerally with a more buttery than petrol note. Also had the steely acidity typical of Niagara Rieslings. Good but pricey.

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  2/14/2007 - Terkel wrote: 88 Points

  Light yellow/green color. Some lemon-grass, citrus and floral notes on the nose. Good intense acidity, and a medium long taste. Unfortunately a bit light taste, lacking intensity.

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