Had Pacific Rim's Riesling a couple days ago; this is the "dry" version (although it's not completely dry with 0.8% residual sugar).
This wine was orginally a Randall Graham/Bonny Doon wine, according to the website. Some ex-employees started it up in 2006. The winery is doing a lot of cool stuff--biodynamic, and all natural (ie no commercial) yeasts. Cool stuff. 9$ at Trader Joes, which is reasonable. Drank this with some crab cakes--and this wine went well with them. Lots of herby white pepper (on second thought, jasmine is probably a better description--thanks bottle) on the nose along with peaches and limes (another random thought--limes almost comes across as salty). This actually comes off as a little cloying and hollow to me. It's not bad, but it sure doesn't have the same presence as German or Austrian rieslings. I liked their off-dry riesling more (even though they're different vintages). Went great with the crab cakes, but it didn't really grab me. I think there's more exciting riesling out there, for just a little more. This is a fairly new producer, so it will be interesting to see how these wines evolve over time. They certainly have good pedigree and are going in the right direction. C+
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