2014 Kanta Riesling Echunga Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 87.3 points

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  1/6/2024 - Bandreas Likes this wine:

  Tasted at the "Vue de Monde" restaurant in Melbourne as part of the wine accompaniment to their Tasting Menu.
  Smoky, discreet age notes; refined and a bit subdued. Opens up and becomes more interesting in terms of length and breadth after being exposed to air.
  (Did not know that Egon Müller also has a hand in the making of Australian Riesling.)
  reading through earlier tasing notes by Graemeg where he voiced doubts about the ageability of this wine I can confirm that it did age well and certainly does not seem to be at the end of its road.
  Based on my limited experience with wines from this producer I would tend to say that Egon Müller wines do need plenty of time in the bottle, and must not be served too cold, to start revealing their potential.
  Correction: This tasting note does not refer to the Kanta Riesling Echunga vineyard but the Museum edition, Balhannah vineyard of the same producer!
  My apologies to the readers for this misinterpretation!

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  7/21/2019 - graemeg wrote:

  {screwcap, 12%} Pretty much as for January. Pleasant, apple-infused, slightly watery wine with mild acidity and a steely quality. Dry, light/medium body. Labelled Balhannah vineyard. Might keep longer, not sure about improvement though.

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  6/18/2019 - depechemoroder Likes this wine: 90 Points

  I'm not sure if this is the same vineyard as Egon Muller had two vineyards in Adleaide Hills. In any case, classic petrol and struck match nose I get on South Aussie rieslings, but a touch more floral and with sweeter citrus on the nose. Rapier-like acidity as expected, but there was a brighter and warmer core where the lime and pomelo fruit shone through. Eden and Clare are far more textural and evolve into something really special, but this was very enjoyable for near term drinking.

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  1/30/2019 - graemeg wrote:

  {Screwcap, 12%} Pale straw. Muted nose; some sherbet green apple, and a steely mineral note. The palate is liggt-bodied dry but with gently sweet ripe fruit, some apple, a sense of spring water freshness too. Maybe some rockmelon too. Does seem to have a distinctly different character to rizzas from Clare or Eden; Adelaide Hills Riesling is a fairly unusual beast. That said, it's not terribly distinctive in its own right. Shortish finish. May improve, possibly. But doubt remains.

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  1/27/2018 - acyso wrote: 85 Points

  Rieslingfeier Grand Tasting (New York City, NY): A fairly reductive, crisp, and lean wine. I will say, This does remind me of an Australian riesling as it should. However, at the end of the day it's a fairly simple wine with a bit more acidity than it knows what to do with.

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