2004 Two Mountain Lemberger

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Coincidentally, after holding on to a bottle of Two Mountain Riesling since the 2005 offline, I took it to a Fayetteville Wine Society meeting in May to share with others. The subject was Washington State wines. I either held onto it too long or opened it too soon (I suspect the former). At the winery tasting in 2005 it had been a crisp, fruity, slightly sweet Riesling (I believe about 2% residual sugar.) At the meeting it had the most petrolly odor I've ever encountered in a wine and no fruit detectable. Still, one couple prefered it to the Columbia Cellarmaster Riesling we had just tried which was too sweet for their palates. Some German Rieslings are petrolly in adolescence and emerge from that in maturity. I e-mailed Matt Rawn to see what his experience has been with Two Mountain Rieslings as they age but haven't heard from him.