Castle Rock Diletti Riesling 2023
- 95
- $42
- Drink by: 2024-2039
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Another example of a winemaker playing with his food. Rob has fermented and matured, over ten months on lees, the fruit here in older French puncheons. The wine has picked up a little more colour than some and is a deeper yellow. The nose gives us an enticing array of flavours with apricot skins, figs, lemon curd and fresh citrus. There is a chalky/minerally backing and the wine exhibits bright acidity, balance, a fine focus, drive and length. A long and lingering finish here, with intensity maintained for the full journey. Impressively persistent. Enjoy over the next ten to fifteen years. Love 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.
