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Ravines Wine Cellars Dry Riesling(2006)
- Winery:
- Ravines Wine Cellars
- Varietal:
- Riesling
- Region:
- USA > New York > Finger Lakes
- Type:
- White Wine
- User Tags:
- riesling, white grape, mineral, stone fruits, (tree) fruit, peach, fruit, romanian cheese, blend, ava
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Source:
Appellation America Wine Portal
- A protégé of the late Willy Frank of Dr. Konstantin Frank, Ravines’ Provence-born winemaker Morten Hallgren has made a gorgeous dry Riesling. The wine, along with others emerging from the region, is on the cutting edge of what is perhaps America’s best appellations for producing world-class Riesling. This wine has some of that telltale petrol aroma (which the Germans euphemistically call “toast”) that for me signals Riesling’s typical minerality. Also on the nose are smells of dried apricots, while the texture on the palate is substantial. With an imperceptible trace of residual read more...sugar (0.3), the wine finishes very dry. Hallgren told me that he thinks he makes “one of the drier” Rieslings in the region and for this wine he was going after minerality and floral characteristics; and I believe he’s achieved this. The grapes were sourced from a quartet of vineyards, whose vines range in age from 10-to-20 years. The sources are the Argetsinger Vineyard (40-45% of the blend) on Seneca Lake, Serenity Vineyard (15%), also on Seneca, Shaw (15%) on Keuka, and Hobbits Hollow (30 %) on Skaneateles Lake. The stated alcohol is 12.5 percent, and there were 1,300 cases produced. (hide)
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Source:
Appellation America
- A protégé of the late Willy Frank of Dr. Konstantin Frank, Ravines’ Provence-born winemaker Morten Hallgren has made a gorgeous dry Riesling. The wine, along with others emerging from the region, is on the cutting edge of what is perhaps America’s best appellations for producing world-class Riesling.This wine has some of that telltale petrol aroma (which the Germans euphemistically call “toast”) that for me signals Riesling’s typical minerality. Also on the nose are smells of dried apricots, while the texture on the palate is substantial. With an imperceptible trace of residual read more...sugar (0.3), the wine finishes very dry. Hallgren told me that he thinks he makes “one of the drier” Rieslings in the region and for this wine he was going after minerality and floral characteristics; and I believe he’s achieved this.The grapes were sourced from a quartet of vineyards, whose vines range in age from 10-to-20 years. The sources are the Argetsinger Vineyard (40-45% of the blend) on Seneca Lake, Serenity Vineyard (15%), also on Seneca, Shaw (15%) on Keuka, and Hobbits Hollow (30 %) on Skaneateles Lake. The stated alcohol is 12.5 percent, and there were 1,300 cases produced. (hide)
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Source:
Nexternal
- An Alsatian-style Riesling, this dry, firm wine has aromas of peach and citrus. Minerality backs the mouthfeel, while flavors of orange, melon, spice and peach pit play on the tongue. Strong acids and a long, minerally finish suggest that this wine will age gracefully over the next five years or more.
