(New Zealand) Fruit salad, nuts, honey and attractive stone fruit nose. Secondary kerosene notes on the attack. A rounded off-dry palate with integrated acidity. Alc: 13%.

Gibbston Valley’s 2008 Riesling displays intense lime juice, honeysuckle, fresh pear slice, beeswax and peach blossom aromas. Dry with a suggestion of sweetness (7.9 grams per liter of residual sugar), the medium bodied Riesling has good concentration crisp acidity and a long zesty finish. Drinking now, it should cellar to 2016. No known USA importer.

Ripe, round and juicy, a lively Riesling with pretty green-apple and peach flavors at the core, lingering nicely on the dry finish. Drink now through 2007. 700 cases made. -HS