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2011 Plantagenet Riesling

Mount Barker, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
$19. 99
Bottle
$239.88 Dozen
Minimum 12 bottles
Cellar: 5 - 6 Years (2017-2018)
ABV: 12.5%
Closure: Screw Cap

Brilliant very pale straw colour with very light greenish tinge around the edges and watery hue. Freshly squeezed lemon top notes are followed by some lime, steely flint like characters and mineral. On the back palate lemon and lime flavours are followed by some orange rind and steely mineral. Clean crisp acid finish. Aftertaste of lemon, lime, orange rind and mineral.
Drink now or cellar 5-6 years.
Alc 12.5%

Other Reviews….
Vivid, pale green-straw; classic Mount Barker Riesling, with a spine of steely acidity around which the wine is built, the flavours of lime and lemon; its long-term development is as much a certainty as Black Caviar.
Drink by 2026
94 points
James Halliday – Australian Wine Companion