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    St. Andrews

    Riesling 2018

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    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.

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    Honours and awards

    • Wine Show
    • Award
    • Catador Wine Awards 2021
    • Grand Gold
    • International Wine Challenge Tranche 1 2021
    • Gold
    • Catavinum World Wine & Spirit Competition 2021
    • Gold
    • International Wine Awards 2021
    • Gold
    • Vinus International Wine & Spirit Competition 2021
    • Gold
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    Wine details
    VITAL STATISTICS

    Wine details

    • At release, the wine is a very pale green/straw colour with a slight green tinge to the edge. It displays vibrant lime aromas with hints of lemon and faint floral notes. The wine has a mouthwatering crispness with flavours of lime and lemon underpinned by minerality to give a beautiful linear focus to the palate and balancing the purity of fruit flavours.

    • The aim is to craft a wine of delicacy and finesse that will age well. To this end, the juice was extracted using gentle whole berry pressing to protect the delicate fruit flavours and prevent any extraction of course phenolic character. It is then chilled quickly to just under 10 degrees C. The entire process occurring within ~15 minutes of harvest to ensure the true varietal and regional characters are captured and retained. The juice was allowed to cold settle for 24 hrs before being racked off gross lees. A cool fermentation was carried out in stainless steel vessels, using a relatively neutral yeast strain to preserve varietal characteristics. The fermentation was completed to a natural level of dryness. Minimal fining and filtration is employed prior to bottling in October 2018.

    • 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.

      St Andrews vineyards, block A80, planted with the clone GM198.

    • Clare Valley

      • Acid: 9.10
      • Alc %: 11.80
      • PH: 2.80
      • Residual Sugar: 0.80

    • Under ideal conditions this wine should cellar well to 2038, possibly longer.

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    • Huon Hooke,

      2 Jan 2019
      91 Points
      Light yellow colour, with a fresh lemon-essence, straw and dry-grass aroma, with a lively palate which is dry and quite high-acid. It is very nervy, dry and crisp and needs either food or time. It would age well. 26/2/2019
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    • Sean Ludford,

      1 Jan 2018
      94 Points
      Brilliant, light gold/green color. The nose is moderately intense offering scents of lemon and acacia flowers with supporting notes of green tea, grapefruit, and slate. The palate confirms the nose delivering a citrus-driven core with flavors of Asian pear, kiwi, and green apple. The finish is long and lingering. Medium-bodied and perfectly balanced with a loads of bright acidity creating a vibrant texture.
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    • Nick Stock, Biggest Australian Wine Tasting Ever

      6 Jan 2019
      92 Points
      A very intense, crisp and dry, lime-scented riesling that also offers green apples on the palate, which is super taut, long and powerful. Drink or hold. Screw cap.
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    • David Bicknell, Halliday Wine Companion 2020

      8 Jan 2019
      95 points
      Bridging the styles, to a degree, between the standard Clare (generous) and the Reserve Parcel (finesse). There's a composed, confident flow about this wine. Depth of flavour without sacrificing elegance, immaculately tailored (ha!), and with length to burn.
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    • Ronn Weigand MW, MS, Star Listings (Wakefield) - issues #184, #185, #186

      8 Jan 2019
      5 stars
      The 2018 St. Andrews Riesling is a remarkable Clare Valley wine: fragrant, medium bodied, crisp, and very long on the palate, with refined aromas/flavors (pear, lime, pineapple, grapefruit, honeysuckle), excellent balance, and a zesty, long finish. Great quality and value; warrants aging.
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    • Christina Pickard,

      10 Jan 2019
      91 Points
      Editors’ Choice. Taylors’s single-vineyard Riesling is always as traditional Clare Valley as it gets and this vintage—a dry and low-yielding one—doesn’t disappoint. From grapes grown on terra rossa over limestone soil, it’s austere and very young but has all of the lemon-lime, white-pepper, chalk-dust and honeysuckle characters you’d hope for. The palate is tight, focused and bone dry, with laser-sharp acidity, a talc-like texture, fresh citrus fruit and a long limey finish. Drink 2021–2029 and likely beyond. Seaview Imports.
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    • MaryAnn Worobiec,

      1 Jan 2019
      86 Points
      Lanolin and beeswax notes linger in the background as aggressive, mouthwatering citrus flavors dominate, with a touch of wasabi on the finish. Drink now.
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