Wine By Nine

White Wine by Poet's Leap from Columbia Valley, Washington. Armin Diel, of Schlossgut Diel and wine writing fame, is at the helm of Poet's Leap, a Long Shadows consortium winery. The 2004 Riesling is an excellent off-dry (19.3 grams of residual sugar per liter) white with lovely linden blossom and spice aromas. Sweet minerals, slight notes of honey, melon, and pear are found in this spicy effort's core. Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate 89 Points