Castle Rock Diletti Riesling 2022
- 93
- $38
- Drink by: 2023-2029
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This is Rob Diletti playing around with Old World techniques to explore the texture and acidity of Riesling (seriously, you should be chasing all of Rob’s wines, whether ‘standards’ or experimental – he has more than proved himself as one of West Australia’s, indeed the nation’s, finest winemakers). Free run juice is racked to barrel along with some solids, before fermentation in older French puncheons and then ten months maturation there with minimal stirring. Bone dry, this is fascinating stuff and lovers of Riesling will adore it. A slightly deeper yellow colour. The aromas weave through limes and oranges. Early complexity is already evident and there is a good line of acidity with near-perfect balance. A lingering finish, though it seems to broaden out just a touch right at the conclusion. A really interesting style to drink now and over the next five or six years.
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.
