Hidden Bench Estate Riesling 2020

This NWAC 2023 gold medalist sports wonderful lift, purity and precision. Riesling’s aromatic prowess is front and centre with lifted, ripe pear/melon fruit, subtle petrol and a lovely spice I often get from older vine Niagara rieslings. It’s mid-weight, just off-dry with fine and lime acidity and a typical Beamsville Bench mineral finish. Excellent length. A bit riper and richer than the lean, powerful intense [2019], but not the least flabbly. Tasted July 2023. Score – 92. (David Lawrason, winealign.com)