Castle Rock Riesling 2023
- 94
- $32
- Drink by: 2023-2033
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Put pricing aside for a moment, the team at Castle Rock have been making this Riesling since 1986 and they consider it their flagship. It is made with a blend from fruit off all of their blocks, with only free run juice used (that is, for those interested, the first 450 litres from every tonne pressed). A cool ferment in stainless steel with inoculated yeasts. A pale yellow hue here; this is a stony, even slightly smoky Riesling. We have notes of limes, grapefruits and spices. There is endless lemon on the palate too with juicy acidity, fine balance, and a very long finish. This is a cracking Riesling; cellar for ten years without hesitation.
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.
