Picked this up a few years ago in San Francisco for $5. This is an old enough Clare Valley riesling to still have a cork closure instead of Australia's now ubiquitous screw cap.
Yet, no sign of the cork taint that drove that shift from cork. I'd say it was a very successful 25 year journey yielding a richer and fuller body, mellowed acid, and more integration. The angularity of a young Clare Valley riesling is gone. It's now round like us middle aged men. The fruit is there – oxidized yellow apple and meyer lemon, marmalade, dried apricot, dried pineapple, followed by lots of tertiary – marzipan, beeswax,petrol, toast, beer nuts, and even caramel which I assume is from, maybe, maillard reaction during its journey.
Glad I opened it.
by Key_Candle9928
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Hook it up to my veins.