Biscay Road Barossa Valley Riesling 2025
- 93
- $25
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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An attractively packaged and obviously very youthful Riesling. Early signs are that 2025 is another very fine vintage for the region, a very early and dry one, and we see that here. The vineyard providing the fruit for this thoroughly enjoyable Riesling was planted back in 1981. Lemon/straw in colour, this is seriously aromatic, with the aromas flooding forth from the glass – delightfully limey notes. There are also hints of florals and lemon blossoms and a lovely freshly baked lemon pie character. Forward, expressive, clean, fresh and intense, there is a minerally backing. The wine is well balanced and offers good length. A delicious wine for enjoying over the next six to eight 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.
