2024 Desire Lines La Jolla del Norte Riesling
93 points – Antonio Galloni, Vinous
“The 2024 Riesling La Jolla del Norte Vineyard, from vines planted in 1961, is a rare Riesling from St. Helena that harkens back to an era that was much more viticulturally diverse than today’s Cabernet-Sauvignon-dominated landscape. Bright and aromatic, with tons of varietal character, the 2024 is super-impressive right out of the gate.”
17.5 – Alder Yarrow, JancisRobinson.com
"Scents of lemon and lime zest, Asian pear and wet chalkboard. Decidedly saline flavours of lemon pith, mandarin zest, white flowers and unripe Asian pear have a fantastically mouth-watering quality thanks to electric acidity. Bright, zippy and resonantly satisfying."
Our 2024 La Jolla del Norte Vineyard Riesling is, in comparison to our previous 2021, aromatically more expressive and yet texturally more compact and tensile. The nose is marked by ripe stone fruit and orange blossom, swirling alongside the site's signature citrus pith, green herbs, and stony mineral. The fruit was whole-cluster pressed, settled in tank, and racked to tank for fermentation without inoculation. After fermentation, the wine was racked to stainless steel drums with heavy lees for a more reductive style of elevage, to preserve tension in the finished wine and add what we think of as a sense of reductive vigor. This wine is both poised and juicy, with 2.4 g/L RS, a pH of 3.15, and 7.7 g/L TA. We love white wines that evoke summer fruit at their height of flavor and vibrancy…
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