Castle Rock Skywalk Riesling 2024
- 92
- $28
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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Rob Diletti is obviously having fun playing around with various styles of Riesling. This one, which is good value, is made in the exact same manner as his flagship, the Estate Riesling, with a single variation. Here, he looks to the “medium pressing portion from each Riesling block”. The colour is pale and yet a gleaming yellow, with the nose giving us notes of lemon curd, florals and orange blossoms. The structure comes off as slightly more forward than some. This is a soft and lingering style, with gentle acidity. For drinking over the next half dozen years and one to enjoy while the others from this year’s release are coming around.
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.
