Favourite White Wine

Gavin Trott · Post by **Gavin Trott** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 1:09 pm

Hello

Quick poll, what is your favourite white wine. Please fill in the poll, and if you have time, also hit reply and let us know your current favourites in that style.

Why do you like it, what do you drink it with etc? Perhaps even a tasting note if you have one easily available?

Example, for me its Riesling, its fresh, can be cellared or enjoyed young, goes with most seafood, and is great value.

Current favourites

all the 2003 Kilikanoons, especially the Reserve
2003 O'Leary Walker Polish Hill
and for value for money

2003 Taylors Riesling

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 1:43 pm

Love the stuff and infact drink very little other type of white wine unless it has bubbles.

All time favorite Grosset Polish Hill but this is a little sentimental as well as the 1998 was the first full case of wine my partner and I ever bought together.

We are also enjoying the Caryle Estate (Pfeiffer's Wines from Rutherglen retail brand) 2003 Riesling. The fruit is from the King Valley and this years is much more intense wine than the 2001 or 2002 I guess mainly due to the very hot summer we had. It usually has a lovely floral nose but this year has some wonderful passionfruit characters and good weight on the palate. Around the $16-17 mark.

We will normally drink it with fish or just buy itself with friends.

bacchaebabe · Post by **bacchaebabe** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 1:57 pm

Got to be riesling but semillon comes a close second.

Both are great young, sensational aged, unbelievable value and easy to source.

Favourite rieslings include the Richmond Grove watervale, both Grossets, Petaluma and Pewsey Vale. I buy these wines every year without fail and love them all.

I usually drink 3 - 6 on release and cellar the rest.

markg · Post by **markg** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 2:11 pm

I love the Cape Mentelle Sem/Sav Blend.

I also have quite a few 2002 O'Leary Walker reislings that I am working through and never fail to find an excuse to open one !

michaelw · Post by **michaelw** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 2:46 pm

I've become a big riesling convert in the past year or so. This is in part due to the fact that my wife experimented with a few and found she quite liked them. I had always dismissed them as being too sweet for my palate.

Oh, how mistaken I was. My wife began drinking Brown Bros Crouchen and Riesling which is too sweet for my palate, and hers now. She always proclaimed that Chardonnays, Semillons and straight Rieslings were too dry for her. I had not tried many rieslings apart from a single sip of the Crouchen. Uuuchh!

We both tried the 2002 Petaluma and neither of us has looked back since. After seeing how much we both enjoyed the 2002 Petaluma I branched out and tried many other 2002 from the Clare Valley and was generally impressed.

We've got some 2003 Petaluma at home to compliment the 2002 and have found these different in style but still very nice. I think I'll have to cellar these now so as not to drink them all during her pregnancy!

Swesensen · Post by **Swesensen** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 5:16 pm

As someone else said:

Got to be riesling but semillon comes a close second.

Both are great young, good when aged, unbelievable value and easy to source.

Favourite rieslings include the Richmond Grove watervale, and Pewsey Vale. I buy these wines every year without fail and love them all.

Cheers .......... Rex S.

Phil Shorten · Post by **Phil Shorten** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 7:01 pm

Riesling is number one for me as well; among the Aussies are the great Leo Burings from the 1970's, 1984 Leo Buring Eden Valley Maturation Reserve and the 1998 Grosset Polish Hill.

Chardonnay, although much maligned, comes in second. Aussie faves are the Cullen and Penfolds 94A. Other goodies are Kumeu River and Michel Colin Deleger's Pulgny Montrachets.

Cheers
Phil

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 7:42 pm

I think my fav is definetely Riesling in general. However in saying this, I don't think great Riesling can match the high that a great Chardonnay can. When you drink a truly great Chardonnay, it is mind blowing. This last happened with a bottle of 94 Leeuwin Art series Chard a few weeks ago.
cheers
Anthony

Wizz · Post by **Wizz** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 7:47 pm

This was tough. I have way, way more riesling than any other white in the cellar, and I'm learning to like good sem from Hunter, Barossa and WA, but the vote went to Chardonnay. As other have said, a great chardonnay is hard to beat.

In voting though, I'm only thinking of dry wines. If you include sweet wines as well, then riesling gets the nod.

Cheers

Andrew

MartinC · Post by **MartinC** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 9:37 pm

To me nothing like a bt. of Peel Est. Chenin Blanc. Alcoholic, come with some btl.aged and oaked. Inexpensive & satisfying. The red wine drinker's white wine.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 12:21 am

Semillon is my fav especially the Mt Pleasant Lovedale. Semillon is very versitile as it can be enjoyed young with a very refreshing and fruit palate, when it's aged, the golden honey just can't pass it.

It's cheap, and availability is never a problem.

Geoffrey · Post by **Geoffrey** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 5:39 am

Riesling for me, 99.9% of white wines that i cellar are rieslings. Mostly all New Zealand and cellared away for 4yrs before drinking, tend to have a mix of vineyards and styles from through out NZ.
Struggle to drink Chardonnay these days but if i do they tend to be dry and flinty, small oak, in a chablis style. Daniel Schuster Petrie Vineyard and Te Mata Elston are my preferred drop.
Went through a 'anything goes with Sauvignon Blanc' stage many years ago but hardly pass my nose over the grape these days if i do it tends to be something like a Pegasus Bay Sauvignon/Semillon, i like the way the Semillon takes away the sharp edge to the S/B and gives the wine a creamy finish.
Summer around the corner so a few friends will start turning up with kiwi Pinot Gris for day time drinking, had the odd one that ive enjoyed even if they were 14% lunch time bottles.Jury still out for me on Kiwi Pinot Gris, do love the Alsace ones.
In general i give anything a try in whites and occasionally you come across something that with age a Pumpkin has been turned into a Princess.

Cheers,

Geoffrey

ChrisH · Post by **ChrisH** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 1:55 pm

Cool climate Chardonnay by the length of the straight - examples that come to mind are Leeuwin, Giaconda, Sorrenberg, Neudorf, Felton Rd, heaps of White Burgundy, Chablis, and White Bordeaux.

regards
Chris

Neville K · Post by **Neville K** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 4:20 pm

Interesting question. The greatest expression of white wine tends to come from chardonnay: the best of Burgundy, Chablis, Champagne blancs de blancs; Giaconda, Leeuwin Estate, Cullen, Pierro, Tyrells Vat 47, Mount Mary, Te Mata.

BUT, pound for pound, value for money Riesling wins hands down. Got $35 or less in your pocket and you can go shopping: Grosset PH and Watervale, Mt Horrocks, Mitchell, Plantagent, Alkoomi, Tamar Ridge, Dr Loosen, George Breuer, JJ Wolf.

Infact is there a better wine under $15 than a Clare Riesling?

Having said all of the above 1978 DRC Le Montrachet, even 60ml (2 ozs) of it, is the greatest privilege of liquor full stop that has ever passed my lips.

Brett Stevens · Post by **Brett Stevens** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 1:04 pm

I am a newby here so, i guess this first post will test the waters for me. I voted for Sav Blanc as my favourite. and yes in particular NZ Sav Blancs, i just cant get past the nose of a good sav blanc i could smell all day without taking a sip. I am also a fan of rieslings especially with a few years.

But chard i cannot get my head around, i have had a lot of chard and possibly some of the best and maybe it is just me but chard is just about the least fruit driven of all wines (in my opinion), it seems to be more about the talent of the winemaker eg, Malo and big oaks etc than the quality of the fruit.

Just my opinion

Please be gentle

Brett

ChrisH · Post by **ChrisH** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 1:22 pm

Raises an interesting point Brett - I like White Burgundy because it is not fruit driven , but more about structure and complexity.

Sauvignon Blanc as a general rule is all about the pure fruit. For that reason I can be intoxicated with the pureness for about a glass at most and then I tend to become bored with it. However a lot of drinkers love Sauvignon blanc - (none that I know however) :lol:

A lot of the foumites here like Riesling as a non-wooded white because of its complexity with some age.

My 2c worth.

regards
Chris

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 1:51 pm

I love it

I love all wine, but not as much as others

anthony

ChrisH · Post by **ChrisH** » Sun Oct 05, 2003 3:43 pm

Anthony :

I love all wine

I was wondering who was still buying all that Liebfraumilch

regards
Chris

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