Castelli Estate Mount Barker Riesling 2023
- 93
- $27
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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2023 was a very fine vintage for this region, later than usual. Free run juice only, with a cool fermentation, the wine is a pale yellow colour. Intense aromas of limes and citrus, florals, minerals, chalk and bath salt with a hint of honeysuckle on the finish. Quite vibrant acidity, it is linear, focused with very good length. Still very youthful with a good decade ahead of it, this is a most attractive Riesling with an exciting future.
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.
