2017 Jacob's Creek Riesling Classic

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 70 points

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  2/17/2018 - forceberry wrote: 72 Points

  12,1% alcohol, 2 g/l residual sugar, 6,9 g/l acidity. Tasted blind in VV.
  
  Limpid pale green color. Ripe and somewhat waxy nose with vague aromas of ripe apricots, some banana and a hint of something leathery. I have a vague suspicion there might a touch of brett here, because this really doesn't smell like typical Riesling and there is a sort of phenolic undercurrent to the nose. The wine is light-bodied, acid-driven and fresh yet also quite straightforward and thin on the palate. There are quite light flavors of lemony citrus fruits, steely minerality and a hint of white peach. The high acidity makes the wine feel lively and quite structure, but also emphasizes the light body and the lack of depth in the flavor department. The finish is quite thin with light, medium-long flavors of lemon-driven citrus fruits, apple peel bitterness and a hint of steel.
  
  A thin and simple wine that showed more interesting nose than what the palate could offer in turn. Rather linear and one-dimensional with good freshness and very little beyond that. Doesn't have really anything that would make me want to buy it. Somewhat poor value at 9,99€.

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  1/11/2018 - fc1910 wrote:

  One of my trys to drink wine in Sri Lanka! Expensive cause the goverment is raising very high taxes on alcoholic baverages, typical Riesling aromas, little zesty, some lemon spritz, very light and fresh, some supporting acidity, quite drinkable, a trivial entry level bottle, *(+?), around 80+?

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