Burge Family Winemakers Eden Valley Riesling 2024
- 95
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2039
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An ideal growing season resulted in beautiful fruit from the higher altitude of Eden Valley above the Barossa. This Riesling exudes all that is good in the variety. It has a fine citrus note on the nose with lime dominance and a slightly saline character adding further complexity. On the palate, light lemon, chalk dust, and a fine spiciness bring tingle and life. The precise acidity provides the thread that carries through to a very long finish. This is a super example of a classy Riesling in a very good year. While it is drinking well now, further cellaring will reveal what Eden Valley Rieslings are all about with a little age.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
