The Dry Dam McLaren Vale Riesling

This is from adelaide - peach nutmeg spice - nice finish peachy floral spuce -little tiny bit of RS

Could become my Go To midweek Riesling. Floral notes with some mineral. A lush fruit driven palate with a little residual sugar at 10.3% Alc. An excellent quaffer and crowd pleaser.

Medium intensity petro, lemon, lime and white florals on the nose. Semi-sweet in style. Tropicals, lemon/lime, fruit blossoms, underripe green melon, light petro quality and beautifully soft minerals. d'Arenberg is like a 1920's factory. They push out around 3 million bottles a year. I'm not sure how they do it in such a dated facility that is so extremely tight quartered. They built this new crazy cube building. I'll show it in an upcoming post. It's all dedicated to adding various different visitor experiences. It's sort of an eyesore considering the McLaren Vale landscape. It also must have cost a fortune. I would have spent the money on new winemaking facilities first in an effort to continue to push the wine quality. To date, this was one of the more dated but also unclean winemaking facilities I've seen and I've seen a lot all over the world. Very surprising and even more surprising choice how to prioritize their Estate investments! Photos of their branding tent as you drive in and their old 1920's factory look.

Pale Lemon. Citrus aromas but full enough to have some peach. A delicious juiciness to the palate with a little mid palate sweetness (10.3% Alc) finishing dry with acid cut. Nice to have a young Aussie Riesling without the often searing acids. Very Good. Tried another 74 weeks later. This is brilliant young Riesling with notes as above with strong aromas of bath Talc. Amazing QPR.

Lovely nose of petrol. Nice bracing acid that turns pleasantly tart on the finish. Outstanding value here.

A remarkable Riesling.

Pale greenish yellow. High viscosity. Pear and petrol. Chalk. Slight herbaceous and citrus. Honey. Rounded and rich. Green apple. Straight acidity. d'Arenberg the dry dam McLaren vale Riesling 23 @2415, WBGV, 240922

This was great, pale straw color w/subtle greenish hue, bit shy on the nose, bit o citrus & orchard fruit and of course some petrol that quickly blew off. Smooth & silky on palate yet w/great verve & acidity. Quite dry & again, fairly austere flavor wise.

Lovely Riesling from the Clare Valley region with very pronounced peach and honey flavour

Straw yellow in colour. Lime and tropical fruits on the nose. A little sweet with a nice acidic finish.