Claymore God is a DJ Riesling 2023
- 94
- $22
- Drink by: 2024-2039
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You have to love the name of this wine, almost as much as the wine itself. So I guess that if you wake up to Barry Manilow, you took the downstairs elevator to the warm place; Springsteen and it is all sunshine, lollipops and angels. From the Clare Valley, this is a terrific example of a fresh, youthful Riesling from Australia’s most famous region for the variety. We have florals, limes and river stones. Excellent intensity, razor-blade acidity, a well-crafted wine with balance and length. If you want to see lime in a Riesling, this is for you. Drink for ten to fifteen 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.
