Black & Ginger Rapunzel Riesling 2023
- 95
- $33
- Drink by: 2024-2035
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Chances are many would have tasted the wonderful Rieslings previously sourced by a number of makers off the wonderful, old vine Garden Gully Vineyard at Great Western. If you have, you know to get excited by this offering. If you haven’t, you are in for a treat. The vineyard consistently produces beautifully concentrated and intense Rieslings such as this with its solid, deep core of lime, lemon, green apple and lively florals that flow seamlessly from aroma to palate. It’s super dry allowing the fruit to speak with some force. Note there is also a seductive texture, too, so don’t overchill. The little one per-centers come into view on the palate, a touch of ginger, a hint of papaya and Thai basil in the background adding a flourish of the exotic. Like all the very best Rieslings, there is both a delicacy and a subtle power residing here. It’s going to last a long time, too.
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.
