Sweet Riesling
Region: California
Year: 2011
Price: $6
With food?: No
Review from Viewpoints.com: I am about half-way through a bottle of Turning Leaf Riesling, which I normally wouldn't have purchased, but my mom came to visit, and she loves her glass of Riesling! However, that leaves me the rest to polish off...
About the product: Each bottle of Turning Leaf Riesling sells for between $6.00 and $9.00, depending on sales. The mildly sweet white wine has notes of citrus, apricots, lemon, and interestingly, fresh-cut grass!
*My take: *I don't like overly sweet wines, and Rieslings tend to be a little too sweet for my taste. This one, however, is only slightly sweet. It's very lightly effervescent and tingly, so it's very refreshing and nice for a summer drink. It's definitely best served chilled, as once it warms up a bit, the taste changes. According to my husband, who drank it when it was closer to room temperature, "It tastes like vinegar." Now it serves him right, since he doesn't like wine and stole a sip of mine! But he's right... It does take on a slightly vinegar-ish flavor as it warms.
All in all, this is a good, inexpensive version of a Riesling. Three stars.
My review: I couldn't believe how easy this wine was to drink. It wasn't very flavorful or alcoholic, so it went down very easily. It was sweet, with distinct notes of pear and apricot. It was a good, light summer wine, but definitely not for serious wine drinkers. It was only 8 percent alcohol, which was a disappointment to me, even though it made it more drinkable.
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