Tasting - Crane Lake Riesling 2013

Ah - a Riesling! After having a pretty unpleasant experience with the Shiraz right before this, just knowing it was a riesling really helped brighten my spirits. This wine was the Crane Lake Riesling 2013 from California and again, priced at $5.95.

The Vintage Cellar provided the following review:
"The trademark German red grape varietal Dornfelder has a lovely purity of soft red berry fruit. Integrated soft tannins combined with forward fruit flavors make for a perfectly balanced everyday sipping wine. Great with grilled red meat, sausage and chicken. Best served slightly chilled."

On the nose it was sweet and fruity. It had a nice pear and apple scent that was light and nice. For the tasting, it was high in acid, but thats something that I typically really enjoy. There was a good amount of honey present in the flavor that helped to give the sweetness and balance out the acid. I thought that this wine actually reminded me a bit of Welch's white grape juice mixed with a good local apple cider. 

Personally, I loved this. It was nice and fruity with the right amount of acid and sugar. The fruit flavors that were present were very light and complemented each other really well. This is definitely a wine that I could see myself casually drinking and at $5.95 a bottle, I could see myself drinking a fair amount of this.