It may well be Riesling, Jim, but it's not quite Riesling as we've come to know and love it.
Alternatively, maybe it is and I was a tad premature samplinga bottle less than twelve hours after it landed on the premises after the lengthy road haul from Nagambie Lakes to Bowen.
Having read in the latest Wine Club brochure from Tahbilk that this Everyday Drinking Riesling ($6.95/bottle) had picked up a Gold Medal at the 2010 Hobart Wine Show and gone on to take out the Trophy for Best Riesling of the Show, it's hardly surprising that when it was reorder time for Everyday Drinking Whites I went the Riesling rather than the regular $55/dozen cleanskin.
For comparison and contrast I also went for the Riesling Vertical 6 Pack ($75, not bad value for a double of the 2010 and single bottles from '09, '08, '07 and '06), none of which has found their way into the fridge yet.
While initial exposure to the 2010 Everyday Drinking Riesling failed to produce what I've come to expect in a Riesling, as an everyday drinking glass over lunch (my standard four days a week lunch tuna and bean salad's nothing really out of the bag) it works perfectly well. with lively acid and plenty of zing.
Undoubtedly more will be revealed in the fullness of time, particularly time to recover from the transit trauma, and eleven and a half bottles will provide ample opportunities for that to happen.
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