Riesling Lineup 20.0
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- Various
Drinking riesling is like having a deep and meaningful conversation with an erudite friend; it’s expressive, complex and makes you think. Plus you’re doing one of those things that enriches your future self. So we’ve gathered some golden grape goodness from some of Australia’s best riesling academies to get your mind and palate ticking. Let’s make sense of the world one sip at a time.
Each case contains TWO bottles of the following:
White
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- Riesling
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- Clare Valley
- Riesling
- Clare Valley
Another year and another glorious vintage of one of our absolute favourites. We are still wondering if this “Golden Hillside” is an actual place, or a mythical place of the gods. The riesling from the Hillside is nothing short of heavenly, and the price suggests some sort of divine intervention. Plus, however high the vineyards of Clare Valley can get, surely those planted on celestial slopes are moreso. How else would you get such an otherworldly balance of drool-worthy lime and sunshine-soaked lemons, refreshing minerality and cloudlike complexity? The bottle definitely says Clare Valley though. Maybe heaven is a place on earth after all?
White
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- Riesling
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- Clare Valley
- Riesling
- Clare Valley
Kevin Mitchell is one of the top winemakers in the Clare and he's just sent us this riesling from his own brand, Woodvale. It’s everything you would want from the variety that makes Clare famous. It’s crisp, textural, bright, laser sharp and the tiniest bit rich. The fruit is of that classic riesling profile with an array of citrus spanning from meyer lemon to key lime to grapefruit and even mandarin. We’re loving it and can’t wait for you to as well.
White
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- Riesling
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- Pemberton
- Riesling
- Pemberton
Silkwood absolutely nails it with this riesling. It’s actually like biting into a lemon. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not at all unpleasant. It’s not nearly as sour as that’d be in reality, but that flavour is just… WOW! You can taste the rind, the pith, the juice washing over the palate in succession. I half expected to find a pip at any point. Next to that is candied lemon rind, sherbet, some limes and a tang of kiwi, too. You’d want to drizzle this over your seafood, or squeeze it on pancakes with some sugar. How many wines give you such an evocative experience? Very few quite like this!
White
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- Riesling
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- Alsace
- Riesling
- Alsace
Alsatian riz is in a world of its own, flavour wise. Alsace is the driest part of France, with long, lazy summers that allow grapes to ripen in their own good time. Where the German rieslings, just across the border, are delicate and ethereal, the Alsatians are richly fruited and fuller-bodied. This one’s peachy, with hints of wet slate and a lanolin-like air about it. The acidity is all sunny citrus, while the overall impression is stone dry. These wines will age for aeons, so drink whenever you feel the time is right over the next 20 years.
White
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- Riesling
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- Clare Valley
- Riesling
- Clare Valley
When we find a treasure that our mofos love, we keep going back for more. Here’s the third vintage of Atlas Wines' Section 32 riesling that we’ve featured and the first two were a roaring success. It comes from one of the rising stars of the region and hits all the notes you’ve come to expect. It’s bursting with citrus, minerality and texture. Riesling from Clare is renowned for it’s bracing acid line carried forth with vivid fruit. This one delivers all that and then some. Load up the cellar before it’s gone!
White
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- Riesling
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- Clare Valley
- Riesling
- Clare Valley
Jeanneret have made a superb young riesling, from a couple of lofty vineyards in Clare. Not a steely citrus taste bud assault, more approachable and friendly. Watch out for grapefruit pith, meyer lemon flesh and white peach, with fresh chopped herbs. It’s fine and clean, with just enough sweetness to do its job with style.