5 Gold Medals

Hedonistic and tightly focused, this exceptionally balanced wine displays lemon, lime and a seamless spine of natural acidity leading to a finish of extraordinary length.

Dry/Sweet
dry
semi sweet
sweet
wine body
light
medium
full
Oak
none
some
plenty
grape varieties

Riesling

blend or single variety

Single Variety

region

Clare Valley

colour

At release, the wine is a very pale green/straw colour with a slight green tinge to the edge.

nose

The wine displays vibrant lime aromas with hints of lemon and faint floral notes.

palate

This particular Clare Riesling is still tight and restrained with a linear focus to the palate and purity of fruit flavours. There are lashings of fresh lemon/lime juice characters up front and a slate-like minerality across the mid-palate. It is backed up by a persistent and refreshing lime acid finish.

vintage conditions

The growing season was characterized as warm and dry for vintage 2018, the only year in recent times warmer was 2016, which produced some excellent, award-winning wines. One of the great things about this vintage, though, was that we avoided any major heatwaves during vintage which can be very damaging and so to that end, vintage was relatively calm and controlled. Overall, our winemaking team are very excited about the quality of the wines from this vintage. In terms of the white varieties, these wines are highly aromatic with very pure and distinct varietal characters.

cellaring notes

Crafted for immediate enjoyment but will cellar over a long term under ideal conditions.

alcohol volume

11.80%

acid

9.10

pH

2.90

residual sugar

0.80

pack size

Single: 750ml bottle, Case: 6 x 750ml bottle

previous vintages

2016,2017,2019,2020,2022