1998 Wolf Blass Riesling

Community Tasting Notes (2) Median Score: 91 points

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  9/5/2007 - Twitcher35 wrote: 92 Points

  Another very nice bottle drunk in its prime - perhaps not flashy or to everyone's taste, but certainly hits the spot for me. Bargains via auction!!

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  10/30/2005 - StewartWent wrote: 85 Points

  They must have slipped this label in just before EU mandated changes on the use of regional based descriptors. I bought this wine very early on in my wine buying days when Mark Shield's Wine Guide was the business. As it happens in mid 1999 this wine was held as THE budget wine buy of the year.
  
  Medium gold in the glass, looks about right for 7 years. Nice varietal nose, probably an easy pick in the 4 - 7 yr age bracket. No kero, just faint lemon/lime and a sliver of honey. Palate is no real surprise off the back of the bouquet. Very lightly fruited with some citrus notes, clearly fading. Weight is almost dilutive given no classic secondary notes are coming through...doesn't really give me much at all. Pleasant enough, but almost in the curio class (is there a curio class for seeing how cheap quaffers drink at 7 years old?)

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