Grosset Watervale Riesling 2002 (screwcap)
Vented my concerns at my last bottle opened due to overpowering reductive characters on both nose and palate. Thought it opportune to crack another to compare.
Brilliant, starbright palest of straw/green colour. Sensational fresh aromatics of citrus blossoms, intense limey minerals and slightly browned wholemeal toast. The palate delivers an identical story; power-packed, incredibly well-delineated with laser-like focus, rapier minerally acidity supporting bucketloads of tight lime fruit. Finishes with sublime crispness, almost perfect equilibrium and astonishing length. 94 points. A thoroughly brilliant example with, perhaps, two decades of superior drinking ahead. Now my only concern is - why was this bottle so good and the last one so reductive? Perhaps one of the screwcap experts can enlighten me about such flagrant bottle variation from such a top producer?
Bottled under screwcap with an A/V of 13.0%
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Hey, I had one of these at about the same time, and liked it a whole lot less - it was showing like it was in its mid life hole. It did show a lot better the next morning oddly enough, perhaps mine had a touch of reduction covering up the fruit as well. Other than that, very similar descriptors. I like “wholemeal toast”, describes a taste I could only think of as woody,
Bottle variation must be the problem here, Wizz. Bugger!