Finger lakes, New York.....
A protégé of the late Willy Frank of Dr. Konstantin Frank, Ravines’ Provence-born winemaker Morten Hallgren has made a gorgeous dry Riesling. The wine, along with others emerging from the region, is on the cutting edge of what is perhaps America’s best appellations for producing world-class Riesling. This wine has some of that telltale petrol aroma that signals Riesling’s typical minerality. Also on the nose are smells of dried apricots and peaches while the texture on the palate is substantial. With an imperceptible trace of residual sugar the wine finishes very dry. Hallgren thinks he makes “one of the drier” Rieslings in the region and for this wine he was going after minerality and floral characteristics.