Claymore Walk this Way Clare Valley Riesling 2025
- 92
- $22
- Drink by: 2026-2032
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The team at Claymore are closely associated with their love for music and this is reflected in pretty much everything they do. Noting that they ‘get by with a little help from our friends’, the fruit is sourced from local growers from Auburn and Sevenhill, blended with their Estate’s Watervale Riesling. A very pale lemon hue, this is quite a forward, bright style of Riesling. Destined to be drunk a little earlier than some of the classic Clare Rieslings, and nothing wrong with that, we have notes of florals, nectarines, lemon sponge cake and a touch of peaches. There is zippy acidity in this wine of medium length. An attractive style for drinking anytime over the next four to six years. Good value.
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.
