My BC Riesling Review Update

With summer holidays and then the extended power outage due to the wind storm this past weekend, I have finally finished tasting through all the 2013-14 vintages of BC Riesling that I received from BC wineries.  Thank you all.  My next step is to enter all my tasting notes into a database.  The database will be broken down by primary and secondary aromas and flavours.  I tasted each wine twice, one day apart, so that I could get the initial taste straight from the bottle, as many people would do when they open their wine, plus next day to give each wine time to interact with oxygen and see how it changes.  Once in the database, I will tag each wine to a vineyard, as close as possible, and overlay the wine data on a soil/geology map of BC using a Geographic Information System to determine if there are certain aromas or flavours, that a specific to certain soils/geologic rock units in BC.  Let’s learn about our terroir.  And finally to post this information as an interactive story map on the web for you all to view and learn about BC Riesling!

Here is the list of all the wines I tasted, to tantalize you a bit:

1. Jackson-Triggs Grand Reserve Riesling 2013
2. Synchromesh Thorny Vines Vineyard, Naramata Bench, 2014
3. Synchromesh Riesling, Naramata Bench, Okanagan Falls, 2014
4. Synchrmesh Storm Haven Vineyard Riesling, Okanagan Falls 2014
5. Sperling Vineyards Old Vines Riesling 2014
6. CedarCreek Estate Winery Platinum Block 3 Rielsing 2014
7. Tantalus Riesling 2014
8. Tantalus Old Vines Riesling 2012
9. Evolve Riesling 2014
10. Mike B Riesling Cabinett 2014
11. Fort Berens Estate Winery Riesling 2014
12. Upper Bench Estate Winery Riesling 2013
13. St. Hubertus Estate Winery Riesling 2013
14. Summer Gate Riesling 2014
15. Lang Vineyards Legacy Series Riesling 2014
16. Lang Vineyards Farm Reserve Riesling 2014
17. Jackson-Triggs Estate Reserve Riesling 2013
18. Stags Hollow Riesling 2014
19. Road 13, Peter’s Vineyard, Riesling 2013
20. Sonoran Estate Winery Riesling 2012
21. Moraine Riesling 2014
22. Inniskillin Okanagan Estate Series Riesling 2013
23. Dostana Riesling 2011
24. Backyard Vineyard Riesling 2014
25. Wild Goose Vineyards Stony Slope Riesling 2013
26. Wild Goose Vineyards Riesling 2013
27. Harper’s Trail Thadd Springs Vineyard Pioneer Block Dry Riesling 2013
28. Harper’s Trail Thadd Springs Vineyard Silver Mane Block Riesling 2013
29. SpierHead Riesling 2014
30. Red Rooster Riesling 2013
31. Mt. Boucherie Family Estate Winery Riesling 2013
32. Gehringer Brothers Private Reserve Riesling 2013
33. Gehringer Brothers Classic Riesling 2014
34. Summerhill Organic Riesling 2013

Thank you to all these wineries for participating and hopefully helping us all learn a bit more about our BC wines and terroir a bit better.