Bishop's Peak Dry Riesling 2014
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Wilfred
Wong
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Enjoy this wine on a warm summer’s day or with robust Thai food.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
Substantive and flavorful, the 2014 Bishop's Peak Dry Riesling—handcrafted by Talley Vineyards—is one of California's top efforts with this grape variety. The wine's ripe apple, fragrant floral, and slight fusel flavors make it a delicious choice with steamed crab and a dish of drawn butter. Drinks well now. (Tasted: August 26, 2016, San Francisco, CA)
Riesling possesses a remarkable ability to reflect the character of wherever it is grown while still maintaining its identity. A regal variety of incredible purity and precision, this versatile grape can be just as enjoyable dry or sweet, young or old, still or sparkling and can age longer than nearly any other white variety. Somm Secret—Given how difficult it is to discern the level of sweetness in a Riesling from the label, here are some clues to find the dry ones. First, look for the world “trocken.” (“Halbtrocken” or “feinherb” mean off-dry.) Also a higher abv usually indicates a drier Riesling.
California’s coolest wine growing area, Edna Valley excels in the production of high quality Central Coast wines like Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Rhône Blends and aromatic white wines. It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity.
Its northwest to southeast orientation creates a direct path for cool Pacific air and fog to penetrate the valley from the Los Osos and Morro Bay area inwards. Low hillsides of both calcareous and volcanic soils are home to much of the vineyard acreage of the Edna Valley.