Claymore Urban Hymns Reserve Riesling 2026
- 96
- $45
- Drink by: 2026-2046
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The fruit here is solely from the Gaelic Cemetery Vineyard in the Clare Valley. The team note that this wine highlights their best parcel of Riesling. Gin clear, this is beautifully fragrant with aromas weaving through limes, honeysuckle, wet slate, jasmine and citrus. A stunning nose, the wine is balanced with great length, intensity running the full journey. Good energy here with juicy acidity. It should provide wonderful drinking for the next fifteen to twenty years. A cracker.
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.
