December 29, 2010

Featherstone 2006 Old Vines Riesling


(Re-Tasted December 2010) ... Holy Hanna, is this a mouth puckering wine or what?  Obviously a rhetorical question.  Tonight we opened a 4 year old bottle of Featherstone's Old Vines Riesling, made from, at the time, 30 year old vines, some of the oldest in Niagara.  The nose doled out a citrus stoniness while the palate was big on lemon and mineral and nice balancing acidity. The finish reminded me of sucking on an apple core - there's flavour there but there are all the pits; but by no means is that to insinuate this wine is the pits, in fact it is it's polar opposite ... still delightful and a wonderful pairing with fish.

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