June 15, 2022 - Part of a tasting menu, this was a pleasant surprise. It transforms with food with lemon and lime the principle flavour notes, bone dry but with a little roundness on the palate.
January 16, 2022 - Bought Majestic UK £12.99 January 2022 6 mix promo price.
Screw cap. Chilled.
Phew, Dry means Dry! Lively fresh Riesling in a Foodie style, too dry for me as a quaffer. Light - medium body. Enough complexity to suggest at 9 yrs old currently, it still has several years cellar potential.
N....rich and powerful typical New World Riesling aromas.
C....light straw
T.....lovely mineral streak; lively acid, just a hint of honey but only a hint - did I say it was dry? - some obvious lemon/lime; there's an attractive purity and poise to it; some gentle tannin. Flavours are long(ish). Probably the driest Riesling I've had to this point.
VFM?.....£12.99 for an 'aged release' Riesling of 9 yrs is pretty much a bargain. It feels worth around £17.00
November 4, 2021 - Seriously flavoursome mature riesling. I personally wouldn’t like it any more mature as I’m not keen on petrol flavours/aroma.
Impressive and enjoyable
11%, screwcap.
May 15, 2021 - Good Riesling. Lemon, lime and crisply flavoured. Maybe not quite as good as the Viognier
December 12, 2020 - Lime, honey, rubber and petrol on the nose.
The palate is more rounded than expected. It has a creaminess, almost cheesiness. Rich and full for a dry Riesling, with the bottle age definitely doing its thing
February 15, 2020 - Lemon, lime, rounded
February 17, 2019 - Fantastic aussie riesling with amazing freshness and depth around a mineral kerozene core. Vibrant fruitv, bright acidity and a very long finish. Still young, will keep improving over the next 5 years at least.
October 9, 2018 - "2019" Sydney International Wine Show - stewarding notes; 10/7/2018-10/12/2018 (Blue Mountains, NSW): {screwcap, 11%} Lemon & Sulphur. Very citric. The palate is dense and thick with lemon curd, but low-medium acid; not enough. It consequently gives the impression of being full-bodied, but in a stale, turgid sort of way; and then despite all that it finishes short. This was a pretty impressive label back in 2002-8 or so, don’t know what’s happened to it in recent vintages. I don’t think cellaring will fix this.
August 7, 2018 - Peter Lehman Masterclass (Bel & Brio, Barangaroo): Kerosene, lime cordial and slightly crystallised lime on the nose, very acidic, lime juice with a smidge of kerosene and a little dusty note, some breadth and slight burr on the palate. Hmm