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    2021 Ravensworth Riesling Ancestral $35.14 (RRP $60) @ The Wine Collective

    $35.14$6041% Split The Wine Collective Deals

    • Posted 30th Apr

    HOW'S IT TASTE?

    Fresh and zesty, almost cider-like, but the lees will add more flavour over time.

    HOW WAS IT MADE?

    Some skin contact and then pressed straight into ceramic eggs. Then left to its own devices, encouraged with positive thoughts, I wished it well but didn’t influence its journey: parenting and winemaking 101. With about 10g/l of fermentable sugar still present, the wine was put, for want of a better verb, into sparkling wine bottles and then left to finish. This created a natural sparkle, about two atmospheres, which means, if you are French, petillant natural. That's all really, think of this wine as one that is fluid, as in ever changing. The yeast sediment is still there and will change the wine as it ages. Right now its fresh and zesty, cider like but these lees will add more flavour. Best to chill before opening and do this carefully, a natural wine means no 'agents' where added to stop it gushing. Roll the bottle to stir the sediment and then open and pour.

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