Château Ste. Michelle Riesling halbtrocken 2010

“We craft our Columbia Valley Riesling to be an inviting, refreshing, off-dry Riesling vintage after vintage. This Riesling delivers bright passion fruit, sweet lime character with subtle mineral notes. This is our “every day Riesling” that is a pleasure to drink and easy to match with a variety of foods.” (Bob Bertheau, Head Winemaker)

A “perfect” ripening season with full crop yields, and restrained sugar levels led to outstanding wines from Washington state’s Columbia Valley in 2008.
Delayed slightly by cool spring weather and a moderate summer, harvest began 10 days later than normal.
Hot weather in August provided ideal ripening conditions for grapes across all varietals and harvest was quickly ramped up in order to obtain fruit at the optimum ripeness.