Capital Wines The Whip Canberra Riesling 2021
Posted: December 3, 2021
Light citrus/lime driven style with residual sweetness underneath. Needs time!
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Z Wine [MAE] Eden Valley Riesling 2021
Posted: December 3, 2021
Reserved nose with a light mintiness and lovely fresh fruit flavour intensity.
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Mitchelton Blackwood Park Nagambie Lakes Riesling 2021
Posted: December 3, 2021
Zesty sweet and floral fruit fragrances and a lime juice driven palate with good varietal presence. Great acidity.
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Reillys Freya and Jules Watervale Clare Valley Riesling 2021
Posted: December 3, 2021
Fresh floral aromatics, nice brightness of lime characters and residual sweetness.
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Singlefile Great Southern Riesling 2021
Posted: December 3, 2021
Dusty peach and apple characters on the nose with zingy green apple/stonefruit flavours.
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Singlefile Single Vineyard Mount Barker Great Southern Riesling 2021
Posted: December 3, 2021
Light grassy green apple bouquet and a drier style palate with zingy lemon/lime flavours.
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Reschke R-Series Limestone Coast Riesling 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
“Super pretty – super lifted wine.” Generous fruit weight and powerful musk stick-like characters with tight acidity.
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Peter Thompson Wines Silex Mt Gambier Riesling 2018
Posted: December 2, 2021
A nicely ageing wine with toasty lemon/lime and pear-like varietal characters with a lift of rose petals, laced with a crisp line of acidity and finishing nice and clean.
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Majella Coonawarra Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Interesting toasty, toffee and burnt fig-like aromas and flavours.
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Raidis Estate The Kid Coonawarra Riesling 2021
Posted: December 2, 2021
Musky lemon varietal nose with a jasmine-like floral lift and a crisp and lively palate; lots of citrus flavours developing nice complexity.
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Hoggies Coonawarra Riesling 2019
Posted: December 2, 2021
Well-structured wine with an excellent toasty bouquet lifted with citrus and rose petals and has a bright and lively citrus driven palate with nice phenolic backbone.
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Anchorage Classic Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Enjoyable young, this Mosel-style wine is attractively scented, light and lively, with citrusy flavours and an off-dry, finely poised finish. Fine value. $13
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Bald Hills Last Light Single Vineyard Central Otago Bannockburn Riesling 2019
Posted: December 2, 2021
Attractively scented and very harmonious, this light-bodied wine is a medium style with incisive, citrusy, limey flavours, a gentle splash of sweetness, appetising acidity and a long finish. Drink now or cellar. $30 (A)
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Z Wine Rustica Eden Valley Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Musky confectionery bouquet with a grassy character to the very pretty and delicate palate.
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Bream Creek Vineyard Old Vine Reserve Tasmania Riesling 2019
Posted: December 2, 2021
Aged stonefruit characters developing but acid giving it a certain youthfulness.
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Reillys Museum Release Watervale Clare Valley Riesling 2012
Posted: December 2, 2021
An old curio of a style. Citrus aromas with toasty characters and steely notes. Honeyed palate with citrus based flavours filling it out. Good line of acid. Drink now.
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Deakin Brothers Joyhill Vineyard Frankland River Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Fragrant frangipani aromas. Soft in the mouth with good line of acid.
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Ten Miles East Adelaide Hills Riesling 2018
Posted: December 2, 2021
Smoky lime fruit aromas and loads of bold citrus flavours with a tropical note and toasty bottle age.
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Konrad Dry (BioGro NZ) Marlborough Riesling 2017
Posted: December 2, 2021
A well-made wine with a lively lychee and citrus bouquet and a very attractive varietal fruit palate with balancing acidity and lovely complexity developing.
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Macaw Creek Organic (SXC) Mount Lofty Ranges Riesling 2019
Posted: December 2, 2021
Developing varietal bouquet and a good balance between the white peach-like fruit and the acidity. Drying finish.
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URLAR (BioGro) Gladstone Riesling 2018
Posted: December 2, 2021
Melon skins integrate with hessian-like ageing characters on the nose with mature spicy fruit flavours.
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Knappstein Insider Clare Valley Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Great complexity here for a young wine with a heady spicy lime and apple bouquet and lovely intensity of lip-smacking flavours with nicely balanced residual sweetness.
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Taylors Estate Clare Valley Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Reserved citrus blossom bouquet and luscious mouth coating layers of lime and lemon flavours.
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Famille Hugel Grossi Laue Limited Alsace France Riesling 2011
Posted: December 2, 2021
A rich generous wine with controlled development showing aromas of toast and honey with good toasty length to the palate and tight mouth puckering acidity.
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Famille Hugel Classic Alsace France Riesling 2018
Posted: December 2, 2021
Toasty candied lime bouquet and loads of fresh and complex mouth filling fruit flavours.
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Yealands Marlborough Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
A fine lemon scented nose with a nicely weighted lime fruit palate with a drying finish.
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Patrick of Coonawarra Two Blocks Coonawarra Wrattonbully Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
The nose is spicy and perfumed with aromatic varietal fruit flavours on a viscous palate.
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Wandering Lane Great Southern Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
An off-dry style with complex tropical/citrus nose and a candied lime palate with plenty of crisp acidity.
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Singlefile Great Southern WA Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Perfumed nose with a whiff of wisteria and a lovely delicate lemony palate.
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Highland Heritage Mt Canobolas Dry Orange Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
A classy wine with an enticing exotic fragrant floral nose and a bright acid driven honeyed peach palate. Great cellaring potential.
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Robert Stein White Label Mudgee Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Candied apple aromas with slight toasty notes and a basic crisp lemon/lime palate.
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Capital Wines The Whip Canberra Riesling 2018
Posted: December 2, 2021
A mix of floral, honeyed, toasty aromas with a lovely bright palate crisp with green apple flavours.
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Tamburlaine Organic Wines Reserve Orange Riesling 2004
Posted: December 2, 2021
A remarkable wine for its age. Lovely, evolved toasty/glacé fruit fragrances and a powerful, soft, full flavoured palate still showing great drive and energy.
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Trevelen Farm Katie’s Kiss Great Southern Riesling 2019
Posted: December 2, 2021
Nose showing some toasty development with some residual sweetness on the floral citrus palate balanced by the acid.
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Trevelen Farm Estate Great Southern Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Aged brown lime-like aromas with a floral lift and nice varietal intensity to the slightly sweet palate. Good line of acid.
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Lange Estate Providence Road Frankland River Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
A lovely vibrant lifted spicy citrus bouquet. Nicely textured palate, good line of upfront tropical-like fruit flavours. Sweetness balanced by crisp acid.
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Lake Chalice Marlborough Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Full of youthful vigour, this finely poised, single-vineyard wine was harvested early, to achieve a low alcohol style (10% alc/vol). Tangy, tightly structured and gently sweet, it is light and lively, with strong, lemony, appley flavours. A medium style, it…
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Hunter’s Marlborough Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Still very youthful, this attractively scented, single-vineyard wine was grown at Rapaura, on the north side of the Wairau Valley. Pale lemon/green, it has strong, citrusy, appley flavours, just a hint of sweetness, and an appetisingly crisp, lingering finish. Open…
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Pegasus Bay Waipara Valley North Canterbury Riesling 2017
Posted: December 2, 2021
From vines over 30 years old, this is a powerful, lush riesling. Bright, light yellow/green, with a gently honeyed bouquet, it is full-bodied, with concentrated, ripe stone-fruit flavours, enriched by botrytis, gentle sweetness and good acid spine.
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Clarnette & Ludvigsen Grampians Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Fresh lifted perfumed lemon bouquet with a steely thread and crisp and racy spicy citrus flavours.
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Reillys Barking Mad Watervale Clare Valley Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Nose has hints of citrus blossom over lime with a tight citrus driven palate.
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Reillys Watervale Clare Valley Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Citrus nose with some spices and herbal notes. Almost traminer-like palate.
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Gomersal Wines Premium Clare Valley Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Delicate citrus blossom-like aromas with flavours of brown limes and lemon curd. Has great acid.
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Taylors Estate Clare Valley Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
An attractive mix of citrus/lemon fruit characters and steely acidity.
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Clarence Hill Adelaide Riesling 2020
Posted: December 2, 2021
Floral bouquet with a hint of lychees and a full flavoured jubey fruit palate with mouth-watering acidity.
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