Name: Crane Lake
Variety: Riesling
Region: California
Country: United States
Year: 2013
Price: $5.95
Shop/wine critic/winery review: "This light-colored wine displays aromas of honeysuckle and orange blossom; flavors include green apple and peach. The finish is mildly sweet, crisp, and lingering. This wine is an excellent aperitif, yet it pairs well with a number of different foods. Try it with New England clam chowder, smoked salmon, Chinese chicken salad, roasted duck, or scallops in a cream sauce." Vine Republic
My Review: Crane Lake, I haven't met a wine that I have liked from you yet. Please take the hint and leave. This is pretty much all I want to say, but I will expand. The aromas were nothing more than pool water and the taste of the wine was way too sweet (and not in a good way, because I really like sweet Rieslings, usually). Honestly, this was just like rotten passion fruit or melon. It was some thicker tropical fruit that got left in the refrigerator too long and went mushy and flat. Oh, and the wine even established that nice creamy texture that a rotten tropical fruit might have as well. I figured, hey this is a Riesling, how bad can this one be? So gross! Honestly, these Crane Lake wines just haven't been good quality at all, sorry to say.
This wine was tasted at the Vintage Cellar in Blacksburg, VA without food.
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