Best’s Great Western Riesling 2022
- 95
- $25
- Drink by: 2023-2035
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Hard as it is to believe, Great Western Riesling is Best’s introductory Riesling. It’s also the standard bearer for the grape in the region, the one that other makers – and drinkers – tend to judge Grampians Riesling by. In 2022, you see a wine at the top of its game. Florals rise from the glass – honeysuckle, jasmine, iris, citrus blossom – the scent of spring, with a lemon sorbet brightness. Nothing is over-stated or forced, quite the opposite, there’s a delicacy and balance here. The palate is elegant and precise with real verve and energy that holds impressive concentration and length with a lovely lemony acid tang to close. Another top Riesling from a top winemaker.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
