Nathan Kendall, Dry Riesling, Finger Lakes

Lots of minerality on this bottle - it’s wet rock with lime zest.

Nicely aged dry Riesling that punches well above its class, and shows how the grape can perform well in NY in the right hands. Nice acidity touch of flowers, apple, lemon, minerals and petrol w some white pepper, medium body, medium finish. Still going strong. Afields note was excellent too and this bottle 4.5 years later shows the aging point was spot on.

Aromatic with a slight phenolic bitterness. After some air and a little warmer it’s fruitier with apple and candied tropical fruit (and copper?) on the nose, and apple, bitter orange peel, and something a little funkier (hay?) in the palate. The fruit is a little underripe, in a good way. Finishes more mineral and lightly salty. Dry but not bone dry, M+ acid, M to M- body. A good dry Riesling, the qpr is fair to good but not exceptional, …