Winemaker Notes
Isolation Ridge Riesling is ideally served chilled and is a perfect accompaniment for a wide range of foods including seafood and lightly-spiced appetizers and first courses.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2015 Isolation Ridge Riesling is a different proposition altogether. It is intense, concentrated, firm and savory. It offers wafts of sandalwood, beeswax, crushed shells, paperbark and even cloves. There's a brown-spice aspect: cinnamon cassia and star anise, even. It has a sapid mid-palate and long, drawing length. This is a jolt into the next phase of Isolation Ridge Riesling. The alcohol remains modest, at 12.5%, but the sheer intensity of this wine initially indicates that it must have been significantly different in its numbers.
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.
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