Castelli Estate Porongurup Riesling 2018
- 95
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2044
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This is a museum release and while it does exhibit some development, it certainly has a long way to go. The team describe the 2018 vintage as being as close to perfection as Western Australia has ever seen. There was some pre-pressing maceration, the intent being to enhance texture and complexity with only free run juice used. Even at this age, it is still a very pale straw colour with flecks of green. Florals, minerals, hints of honeysuckle and spices. Orange and a hint of nectarines with fine acidity, the intensity here carries for the full length. Very long on the finish, this is a powerful, young Riesling that surely has 15 to 20 years ahead of it.
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.
