The Death of Von Tempsky Organic Riesling 2020, Carrick Winery

The Von Tempsky is a natural wine made from Riesling bunches, left un-pressed for 170 days on skins in this case. It’s a skinsy, phenolic white wine, with plenty of sediment. Bottled by hand at the winery under natural cork, and with a beeswax seal. It has a hazy golden hue and aromas redolent of scrumpy cider apples and funky yeast lees. On the palate, there is Riesling’s signature bracing acidity and tea-like tannin from the extended contact with the grape skins. This is a wine best appreciated when strained through a hipster beard.