Drink This: Anthony Road Wine Company 2019 Sparkling Riesling
The type of rare exception that proves I'm wrong on occasion
I don’t find a lot of sparkling riesling enjoyable to drink. Most forced-carbonation examples are clearly made with a winery’s lesser riesling lots, and it shows. Pet-nat riesling can work (obviously), but in the wrong hands or with the wrong fruit, the acids can end up hard and unrelenting. Method Champenoise-style riesling is relatively rare, but thos…