Fiddler's Green Riesling 2001 (review)

84 points - very good

From Waipara, North Canterbury, New Zealand. 12%

Very pale gold. Minerals and lime (not juice the whole lime) aromas. The first flavour that hits the tongue suggests a medium sweet wine, and then whoosh it finishes dry. An ephemeral wine.

Given blind it would be awfully hard to guess where this wine came from. So light, not as concentrated (as good German rieslings) yet very good. Delicate but not dilute.

Not a food wine. Difficult to say if it will benefit with more age, I'd say no.

If they could build on this style they could produce something really very distinctive and top class.