Allegiance Wines Alumni Clare Valley Riesling 2022
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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From the stellar 2022 vintage in the Clare Valley, the wine is an attractive pale yellow/green. The immediate impression is of lovely Riesling notes with citrus, dry herbs and limes, with a note of wet stone. This is fractionally more forward than some, but there is juicy acidity and impressive length. Nicely balanced and well crafted, there is room to improve in the coming years, but it is already providing great drinking. Drink now and for eight to ten years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
