Saturday Night – Three new wines – Part 2

For the second course Mick did curried mussels and paired the dish with a 2008 August Kesseler Riesling.

"Always Amazing!"

A strong aroma of peaches was found on the nose of this wine. Tasting the wine you’ll notice a green apple flavour to it. The wine was also sweeter than I expected and without much complexity. On the upside, it was easy to drink and went nicely with curried mussels.

"Simple and easy drinking"

Here is the group rating for the wine – Mick - 85, Mark - 83, Kathy – 85, Amy – 88, Overall – 85.25


Here is the LCBO information on the wine –

AUGUST KESSELER R RIESLING 2008


Vintages 192641
750 mL bottle
Price: $ 15.95
Wine, White Wine
10.5% Alcohol/Vol.
Sugar Content : MD
Made in: Rhine Rhinegau, Germany
By: Weingut August Kesseler
Release Date: Dec 11, 2010

Tasting Note - Driven by its mineral side, this white offers a mix of stone, pineapple, peach and grapefruit. Lively and balanced, lingering with a juicy, peppery finish. Drink now through 2016. Score - 89. (Bruce Sanderson, www.winespectator.com, Feb. 28, 2010)

You’ll notice in the group ratings that here is a pretty big rating difference between Amy’s rating (88) and mine (83); this is easily explained, due to Amy being total and complete sweet Riesling whore and if the Kool-aid man jumps out of a glass of Riesling, she gives it 5 extra points on that alone. Just kidding, she liked it for what it was and how good it was with the food and I on the other hand thought we’ve had much better Rieslings.

The curried mussels were awesome as always.

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