Charles Smith Wines Kung Fu Girl Riesling 2024

This medium-bodied Riesling is beautifully balanced with a burstof in-your-face flavor. You can’t escape the white peach and light floral aromas that fill your senses, rounded out with a refreshingly dry finish. The bright citrus flavors and minerality take the palate to exhilarating heights with crisp acidity.

Pairs best with spicy ramen, sriracha pork tacos, and Chinese takeout.

APPELLATION:
Washington State

Evergreen Vineyard:
Planted in 1998 by Jerry Milbrandt, thevineyard rows lie along a stretch of steep cliffs above the Columbia River in the state's newest AVA, Ancient Lakes. A cooler site due to river influence, the nitrogen-poor soils are composed of fragmented basalt, gravel silt, and caliche deposited during ice age floods. This vineyard produces fruit with strong mineral character and great acidity, the perfect balance that winemakers strive for.

The 2023 vintage was an incredible year for high quality  Washington State wines. The year started out with cooler and  wetter weather, that led to very warm temperatures in May resulting  in bloom that took place ahead of schedule. Harvest ended up right  on track, delivering grapes with great intensity and concentration.

Charles Smith’s explosion onto the world wine scene has been nothing less than phenomenal. Winemaker Charles Smith managed Rock & Roll bands in Europe for 11 years before moving to Walla Walla and starting K Vintners on a shoestring. While Charles’ wines radiate the excitement of his Rock & Roll roots, they are grounded in serious quality and value. Charles bottles his brands under several labels. Charles Smith Wines are made for the way that most wines are being consumed today - the day that they are purchased - and are equal parts accessible, affordable and top quality. Charles also produces some of the most interesting and highly rated Syrah in America under his original K Vintners label. K Vintners’ wines are made in very small quantities and are crafted to appeal to the most discriminating connoisseurs. In the past 10 years Charles Smith Wines and K Vintners have garnered 66 scores of 95 points and above and over 300 scores of 90 points and above from the leading U.S. wine publications : Wine Advocate, Wine Spectator, and Wine Enthusiast.

The labels 

Artistic and iconic labels on the bottle of Charles Smith Wines are created by a designer Rikke Korff who has been friends with Charles for more than 17 years.  Raised in Denmark, she was the design director for the global premium lines at Levi Strauss & Co. before starting her own design house. 

"My style of design has always been and is always rooted in the pure perspective of functionality, timelessness & simlicity.  I blend that well with the guts & raw directness of rock'n roll to create future icons and cult brands." - Rikke Korff