2017 Alkoomi Riesling Black Label Frankland River

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90 points

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  6/11/2019 - CCestaro wrote: 92 Points

  This is a very good reisling for the price. Just an excellent nose, with petrol, mineral, some apple, and some lime. Beautiful balance and great flavors of apple, with a nice mineral note, and citrus. Great find via wine access. Glad I scooped up 9 of them. Doesn’t show the sugar profile of a German offering, so I don’t know about long term aging, but these should be fine for a few years.

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  2/11/2019 - graemeg wrote:

  {screwcap, 12%} Glorious fresh representation of riesling. Limes, musk, talc, a hint of apple; there's a slatey, stoney, mineral quality. Prickly, spritzy acid, but not harsh or screeching; actually it's quite embracing, and doesn't linger especially long. This gives a broadness to the texture overall, a bit briney even, which gives me a little pause as to the ultimate longevity of the wine, but my goodness it's delicious and salivating at present. It also pushes it towards the full-bodied end, but always with a stoney aspect, rather than mere fruit. (A nod to old-world attitudes!) Hugely drinkable, I must say, although the inherent dryness of the wine becomes more evident as the bottle level drops... I think better in the short term, given the delicious vibrancy of the underlying wine.

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  12/11/2018 - Heynetty wrote:

  A: Pale lemon green
  N: medium (+) intensity. Petroleum, Apple, lime, pear drops.
  P: dry, medium (+) acid, feels like high alcohol but it’s actually medium (-), Pronounced intensity and medium finish.
  C: good Quality wine. Balanced with assertive intensity and classic Aussie aroma hallmarks. How is the alcohol so low and yet the wine so dry. Is it the clone?

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  9/24/2018 - dbay Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Pale lemon green color. On the nose medium minus intensity of petrol and lime zest . On the palate wine is dry with medium plus acidity, medium minus alcohol, medium minus body and flavors of lemon, lime, zest, minerality and salinity with a medium finish. Very good dry riesling.

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  8/30/2018 - NutmegNative Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Bone dry Riesling, full of bracing acidity. Contains 12% alcohol, surprisingly low, which dictates the super-dryness. Riesling grape flavors of citrus (lemon, lime) with diesel notes and plenty of minerality. $20/btl from Wine Access. Given 95 point ratings from 3 professional raters.

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