Posted: April 26, 2017
Pale golden wine with pretty floral fragrances with a powerful fruit drive and a smart bright and nicely balanced palate with lovely fresh fruit flavours and a minerally finish.
Comments Off on Bird in Hand Clare Valley Riesling 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
A distinctive Old World style. Musky mandarin aromas; some toffee notes. Nicely weighted palate, some sweetness pushing through.
Comments Off on Stift Göttweig Reserve Austria Riesling 2014 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
A powerful complex spicy nose and strong varietal flavours with some nuttiness and lovely creamy mouthfeel. The acidity cuts through the sweetness very well.
Comments Off on Hiedler Heiligenstein Kamptal Riesling 2014 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Nicely ageing toasty, citrus, floral riesling that still has primary fruit to back it up.
Comments Off on Hirsch Zobing Kamptal Riesling 2014 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Interesting wine with creamy toasty nose and seamless integration of fruit, sugar and acid. Starting to show its age but holding up well.
Comments Off on Hirsch Heiligenstein Austria Riesling 2013 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Beautifully ageing riesling with toffee/brown lime bouquet and rich rounded and weighty palate with citrus sherbet -like flavours.
Comments Off on Loveblock Bone Dry Marlborough Riesling 2011 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Slatey lemon nose and more of a neutral dry white palate with a grippy finish.
Comments Off on Crabtree Watervale Single Vineyard Clare Valley Riesling 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
A citrus driven wine with interesting tropical touches and strong acidity.
Comments Off on Boston Bay Peninsula Riesling 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Smells like apple skins and lemon pith with yeasty esters. Great line and length of flavour with plenty of room to grow in the bottle.
Comments Off on Leconfield Old Vines Coonawarra Riesling 2015 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Ripe lemon drop-like nose and fresh acid driven palate with light lemon rind flavours.
Comments Off on Eldredge Single Vineyard Clare Valley Riesling 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
A nice varietal with fine tight minerally citrussy aromas and delicate sherbety flavours with good acid drive.
Comments Off on Vinaceous Reverend V Mount Barker Riesling 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Fresh spicy citrussy/lemon bouquet. Lovely clean palate with good precision and balance.
Comments Off on Vinaceous Reverend V Mount Barker Riesling 2015 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Minerally citrus aromas with some cut grass and sweet orange blossom flavours.
Comments Off on Claymore Wines Superstition Reserve Clare Valley Riesling 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
A lovely drink with toasty lemon curd nose and delicious citrus driven palate with a hint of botrytis-like characters.
Comments Off on Patrick Aged Coonawarra Riesling 2011 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Marmalade-like maturity on the nose with a lovely fragrant lift. It has a powerful Germanic style of palate with great persistence of citrus blossom-like varietal flavours.
Comments Off on Patrick Estate South Australia Riesling 2015 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Aged style with honeyed citrus nose and a nicely textured and very approachable palate.
Comments Off on Gobelsburg Urgestein Riesling 2015 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Powerful musky/floral bouquet. Fresh acid driven palate with significant sweetness to balance.
Comments Off on Hunter’s Marlborough Riesling 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Honeyed lemon marmalade nose and soft citrussy palate with nice toasty finish.
Comments Off on Kahurangi Estate Mt Arthur Reserve Nelson NZ Riesling 2014 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
A fresh cool climate lemony nose and some nice precise varietal flavours with a good line of minerally acidity.
Comments Off on Alkoomi Black Label Frankland River Riesling 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Fragrant nose in the tropical spectrum. Powerful citrus fruit on a bone dry palate with crunchy crisp acid backbone.
Comments Off on Singlefile Wines Great Southern Riesling 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Spicy botrytis-like notes to the tropical nose with gentle spicy/sweet flavours. Quite Germanic.
Comments Off on Saint Clair Premium Marlborough Riesling 2015 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Toasty citrus nose with hint of kero-like ageing characters. Simple, slightly sweet palate.
Comments Off on Willoughby Park Kalgan River Great Southern Albany Riesling 2015 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
A seamlessly balanced, complex wine that’s developing beautifully. Citrus peel bouquet with tropical notes and a toasty marmalade-like palate. Drinking well now.
Comments Off on Pauletts Aged Release Clare Valley Riesling 2010 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
A “serious” wine with interesting Euro style-like complex notes. Wild ferment aromas and a touch of botrytis on the lovely spicy palate. Has great power but a lovely lightness.
Comments Off on Babich Family Estates Cowslip Valley Marlborough Riesling 2015 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Very bright and creamy aromas with a powerful mouth-watering sherbety palate. “Built to age”, noted one judge.
Comments Off on Bunnamagoo Central Ranges Riesling 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
A lovely lifted grassy kiwi fruit/gooseberry bouquet and excellent drive and great depth of intense tropical varietal fruit flavours.
Comments Off on Jackson Estate Stich Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc 2015 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Reserved nose and elegantly structured palate with a simple range of flavours.
Comments Off on Buller Wines Regional King Valley Pinot Grigio 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
A lovely nose – smells of spicy apples and baked bread. Plenty of interest on the palate showing toasty honeyed development.
Comments Off on Nazaaray Mornington Peninsula Pinot Gris 2015 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Nice preserved lemon-like characters with pretty spicy notes. Reserved nose and textured palate.
Comments Off on Foxey’s Hangout Mornington Peninsula Pinot Gris 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Smells of ripe apples with a very delicate fruit palate. A hint of residual sweetness.
Comments Off on Hahndorf Hill Winery Adelaide Hills Pinot Grigio 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
A nicely balanced wine with good presence and persistence of savoury varietal fruit.
Comments Off on Austins & Co 6Ft6 Geelong King Valley Pinot Gris 2015 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Restrained savoury fruit aromas with nice palate roundness that has some sweetness, some pear fruit and nice spicy elements.
Comments Off on Aronui Single Vineyard Nelson Pinot Gris 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Estery fruit bouquet and good acid backbone to the persistent pear palate.
Comments Off on Tohu Awatere Valley Marlborough Pinot Gris 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Intense lifted pear-like aromas and a pretty, slightly perfumed, varietal palate with quite prominent acidity.
Comments Off on Howard Vineyard Clover Single Vineyard Adelaide Hills Pinot Gris 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Fresh pear nose and reserved palate with nice texture, balance and varietal character.
Comments Off on Gartelmann Wines Stephanie Orange Pinot Gris 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Ripe pear bouquet. Well rounded fleshy palate, soft in the mouth. Good spicy peach length and balanced sweetness.
Comments Off on Spring Vale Tasmania Pinot Gris 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017
Posted: April 26, 2017
Pale green hues, dusty fruit aromas with nice savoury complexity and good length of well balanced varietal flavours and some phenolics.
Comments Off on Karrawatta Sophie’s Hill Adelaide Hills Pinot Grigio 2016 / 0 View / April 26, 2017