B&H Roses & Thorns Great Southern Riesling 2024
- 92
- $32
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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A single vineyard Riesling from the Great Southern region, this has a pale lemon hue. A bright punchy style of Riesling with appealing citrussy notes on the nose, along with florals and crisp green apples. There is a solid support system of minerality as the citrus is very much from the grapefruit end of the spectrum. A slightly austere style, there is good finesse and serious length. A ten year proposition with room to improve over that decade.
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.
