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Featherstone Black Sheep Riesling 2017

Niagara Peninsula, Ontario V.Q.A., Canada

Community Score: 4.4/5
Community Reviews: 4

Price: $17.95

Sweetness: Medium Dry
Alcohol: 10%

Drink: 2018-2025

Bottle size: 750 ml
Winery: Featherstone

Greg Hughes rated this wine as 90/100 with the following review:

This is Featherstone's most notorious wines (alongside their Canadian oak Chardonnay). 2017 was achallenging vintage, to say the least. The producers were fighting the elements for most of the season, bit the weather came to behave a bit better in the fall; leading to a by-the-book harvest. For Riesling and other whites that rely on acidity levels, this is key. You have to pick at the right time, or the balance will be off. Honestly, though, since they have offered the Black Sheep it has always been balanced. It is delicious on every vintage (though always a bit different).
This one has a pale lemon hue. Very subtle whote amd yellow.
Explosively attractive aromatocs of lime, lemon, honey, orchard blossom, and quince. It jumps out at you while you pour. Very invigorating.
Superb acidity and freshness. Not a tremendous sweetness to it. If I had to guess, somewhere around 15 grams per litre (making it a "1" or a dry).
Flavours of white peach, lemon zest and sweet almond. More juicy tropical fruit; guava, pineapple, limeade, quince, and some zesty minerality.
Pair with sunny weather and fresh seafood on the barbecue. It should cellar well too. At least half a decade.

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