2019 Troon Vineyard Kubli Bench Amber

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  11/19/2020 - The Drunken Cyclist Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Retail $30. 74% Riesling, 16% Vermentino (Rolle), 10% Viognier. Orange wine is a weird thing. Not conceptually--simply put, it is a white wine vinified like a red wine as the fermentation includes the skins. Orange in the glass, almost the color of a light apple juice, it has an amazing nose if you take the time to breathe. Dried apricot, moist herbal tea leaves, rose petal, allspice. The palate is equally remarkable but decidedly more citrus with orange zest, glycerin, and a mouth-coating quality that enables the finish to linger for minutes. Orange wine is weird, and not everyone appreciates it, but this is a particularly wonderful iteration. thedrunkencyclist.com

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  11/3/2020 - Comertog Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Amber door, medium body and intriguing palate.

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  4/28/2020 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 93 Points

  Beautiful light amber color. Aromas of salty, briny goodness, with orange peel, candied lemon, and some wild herbs, spiced tea, clay and musk – a lot going on. Such clarity and focus on the palate, medium-bodied, a deeply texture wine but it’s so bright throughout. Candied lemon, orange peel, apricot, the fruit mixes with ginger, mint, fennel, mineral, clay. So complex but it goes down so easily. Not too wild or out there, this would be a great way to introduce folks to orange/amber wines, but it has enough to get orange wine geeks excited, too. Exceptional stuff. 74% Riesling, 16% Vermentino and 10% Marsanne, fermented separately then aged in old French oak.

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