2019 Montinore Estate Reserve Riesling, Willamette Oregon

Another wonderfully bright, textural dry Riesling from Montinore. The 2019 season was cool, fresh and long, with mild spring conditions followed by a warm summer with a crisp ending. As a result, the Riesling fruit retained mouth-watering natural acidity while slowly reaching perfect ripeness and phenolic maturity.
 
Montinore Estate’s Riesling blocks are planted on a south-facing slope on the property overlooking Graham Lake. Fruit from these 40-year-old, own-rooted Geisenheim 68 clone vines is handpicked and whole cluster-pressed before cool fermentation in stainless-steel barrels. Once bottled, the wine is held back for up to two years before release.
 
It leads with aromas of white peach, citrus, sweet summer flowers and chalky freshness before a clean and pure palate brimming with mouth-watering zesty flavours, refreshing acidity and a lovely spice-flecked complexity. This is delicious and will also age beautifully over the coming years.