Claymore Superstition Watervale Riesling 2024

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  • $35
  • Drink by: 2025-2035

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The fruit here is from a single vineyard located in the Watervale sub-region of the Clare Valley, from vines in excess of 80 years of age. Only free run juice is used. Claymore purchased the vineyard, some thirty acres in total, in 2015. A near transparent lemon, the nose gives us an appealing and typical Clare mix of grapefruit and limes. Quite spicy, with a flick of honeysuckle as we move along, everything is well supported by a minerally backing. Vibrant acidity and with excellent length, the wine is finely balanced and will drink beautifully for at least the next decade. Impressive stuff and we can expect it to develop into something even more so.

Ken Gargett
Contributor at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic
Pilot
Ken Gargett
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Variety: White Wine, Riesling
Categories: Drinks, Australian Wines