After getting enthusiastic about a big company wine earlier today, sadly this wine brings things back to earth…

I’ve liked some of the Shortlist Riesling previously, yet this is looks ordinary – just picked too early and more angular than ever.

Toasty terpenes and quite forward (which is surprising given the early picking – some exposed bunches/average canopies I suspect), there is loads of acid here but little in the way of flavour – it’s super fresh but I just can’t see anything to really grab hold of.

May make reasonable old bones, but no flavour at present.

Source: Sample
Tasted: October 2014
Drink: 2016-2024+
Score:16/20, 87/100
Would I buy it? No.
Buy online: McGuigan website