News Alert: Riesling does not age!

Daniel_Posner · August 31, 2009, 1:13am

I have a client who has asked me to sell them a case of Stony Hill Riesling, but they wanted to make sure of the vintage. I told them that it was 2006. Here was the response, via email, I received…

Daniel, no, prefer the 2009 or 2008, white riesling doesn’t have a particularly long shelf life–please advise if you can find the on-the-run vintage–is usually released around now.

Jim_Brennan · August 31, 2009, 1:19am

Find them the case, and then send them a decent aged riesling too.

John_Liotta · August 31, 2009, 1:24am

Daniel don’t make them wait even another fucking minute for the '08 to be released. Fly your ass out to St. Helena and pick up a case. They '07 is already tumbling into obscurity . . . getting worse as I type this. Parker changed his note from Mature to Old as I finished that last sentence. Customer service buddy.

ToddFrench · August 31, 2009, 1:40am

I’m long on 2010’s, and have California Overnight at the ready for when they hit the bottles - a winery operator will cap them on the truck on the way to my house, and when I receive them, I will consume them on the spot.

Roberto_Rogness · August 31, 2009, 1:48am

We did a Stony Hill dinner once at Antoine’s in NOLA in the 80’s and the aged Rieslings (like ten to fifteen years) STOLE the show from the more famous Chards…

Bruce_Leiser_owitz · August 31, 2009, 4:52pm

Granted, it doesn’t age quite like the RED riesling…

Bruce

Daniel_Posner · August 31, 2009, 4:58pm

I am typing this from Max’s private plane…

Thanks Max!

Thanks John!

Paul_Jaouen · August 31, 2009, 5:01pm

What does he think of red riesling’s shelf life?

Matthew_Brown · August 31, 2009, 5:06pm

Normally, I would give the customer a little bit of leeway, maybe they just haven’t had a good Riesling that’s supposed to age, and put an older one in their hand with the promise I would take a full return on it if they didn’t enjoy it. But ‘prefer the 09’?!?! Could you at least let them HARVEST the damn grapes first?

Jorge_Henriquez · August 31, 2009, 5:06pm

Just slightly better than rosé riesling’s.

Jay_Miller · August 31, 2009, 5:06pm

But how many wines do?

Phillip_F_r_a_n_k_s · August 31, 2009, 5:52pm

Stony Hill Riesling is probably the single most ageworthy wine made in America.

Jorge_Henriquez · August 31, 2009, 6:26pm

Dan,

Was this Max Marinucci by any chance?

Daniel_Posner · August 31, 2009, 6:44pm

They are very nice people. The only reason we sell Big House Red is because they buy it by the case every few weeks. But then they come up with obscure requests like this one.

John,

Stony Hill is letting me choose my barrel of 2009.

Terence_T-Bone_Livingston · September 1, 2009, 3:27am

Disagree.

Chateau La Salle. Bought a bottle 30 years ago, and it’s still going strong. And they were the first to go with Stelvin! Genius!

Daniel_Posner · September 6, 2009, 2:27am

Just to update everyone, my client has asked for a case of 2007 upon release.

Bruce_G · September 6, 2009, 11:21pm

FWIW, “white riesling” is a perfectly acceptable (if slightly dated) synonym for the Riesling grape variety.
As in…

Mike_Reff · September 7, 2009, 10:51pm

Oy veh. Slip a bottle of the 2007 Herman Weimer Riesling, into their case, tell them it was mistake and that they should try it.

Daniel_Posner · September 8, 2009, 3:01pm

Good work, Bruce!

Jim_Brennan · September 8, 2009, 3:28pm

12%… I assume they make a slightly drier style?