Drinking wine in Australia 2: Generally, LE churns out a huge swath of drinkable and sometimes especially eloquent wines. The Art Series is their upper echelon and, if you can find it in Canada, will set you back significantly. In Australia you can source the various bottles and a dry WA Riesling spoke to us. But unfortunately only on the shelf at he bottle shop. As a sipper or with food this just didn’t work for us. It was highly acidic, and not in a “succulent” way as the label promised; very lime forward, deeply mineral, and only a nuance of floral notes. To compare it apples to apples, new world to new world, I was thinking of how spectacular the “simple” Riesling from Sea Star on Pender Island was/is, and thinking about the heft and cache of Leeuwin, and that just made us more discouraged.
Price: $30 Australian in Australia.
Market Liquidity: Sometimes big stars walk through a matinee performance.
One response to “Leeuwin Estate Art Series Margaret River Riesling, 2016”
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