2009 Howard Park Riesling Great Southern

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 90.4 points

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  11/27/2023 - TravisW Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Lovely bright mid gold with a fleck of green. Nose fresh and lifted, clean as a whistle (no Kero) pithy citrus. The palate is alive. Gripping fine acid keeps you coming back to the glass. Not overly complex but beautifully balanced. This bottle still has time in its legs.

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  1/3/2020 - Avid Wino wrote: 90 Points

  Bickford’s lime cordial, dry apple cider, and granite minerality. Plenty of length but lacking the vitality/spark this evening for higher points... probably a little past its best and beginning a gentle decline.

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  6/20/2016 - Duncan Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Light straw with green tinges. Lovely aromatic nose of citrus fruit and a bit of kerosene. On the palate, lemon and lime, a dusting of sherbet. Very long, good acidity. I feel it's on the cusp between fruity youth and petrol-y age. In the past I have loved this wine and found it one of Australia's best Rieslings; this one, at this age, strokes me as very good but not great. Screwcap, 12.5%.

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  5/30/2016 - Drinking Trees wrote: 90 Points

  Strong nose of chalk and talc. Time reveals scents of lime leaf and orange blossom. Palate is medium-bodied, with a mouth-filling acidity: persistent, pervasive, and tingly, but mild. There's plenty of chalkiness, and just a hint of glycerin. Nothing is overpowering; it's well-balanced, with a long finish. Behind the chalkiness and minerality are hints of tropical fruit: mango, lime leaf, and guava. Rather hard and austere: not instantly lovable, but gets better the longer it's open.

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  9/9/2015 - larker900 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Kind of in that dead zone for a Riesling, not old enough for the syrupy sugars not tough enough for the crispness. Felt like a bit of the fruit had come off, but solid all the same

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