Ballast Stone Riesling Estate Currency Creek

Asshole is the first thing that comes to mind. This wine on the nose has such a bad smell of mineral and chemical, it may have been fermented with hydraulic oil. Normally I would say there was a faulty cork involved, but it was a screw cap. The palate is better but still has overwhelming tastes of chemical and mineral. We had to discard the wine midway through the first glass. My hypothesis is that the wine was mishandled at …