| 16.5 / 20 |
Region: Marlborough
Country: New Zealand
Having tasted the sauvignon blanc a while back, I recently had the chance to taste the Riesling from the Framingham Wine Company. Like the Sauvignon, it turned out to be a really good white wine revealing a pure, crystalline approach that impressed me.
My nose markers fail miserably to capture any of this Riesling aromas as it starts off by resembling oil, later morphs into rubber. More usual notes of citrus and some mineral are present in the background. The nose is impressive in its pureness and sharpness and altogether surprising due to the rubber and oil notes.
In the mouth, it's a fresh, acid wine, with some sweet fruit thrown into a well structured, full body. Long persistence, it lingers in the palate for quite some time after the last drop has been drank.
Framingham has at least another Riesling wine in its portfolio. It's not available where I live, but I would definitely try to track it down.
Tasted on 2010-12-24
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