Burge Family Wines Eden Valley Riesling 2024
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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An exemplary Riesling from a top vintage and great region, this has a very pale lemon hue with such alluring aromas. We have notes of limes and lemons, florals, exotic spices and hints of grapefruit. The wine is balanced and focused, with serious length. Fine minerally acidity runs the full journey and there is an enthralling lingering finish. This will impress any time over the next six to eight years, likely longer.
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.
