Curator Eden Valley Riesling 2024
- 93
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2033
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A single site Riesling, from the Flaxman’s Valley vineyard in the Eden Valley, from a vintage which really is proving to be exciting. A small portion remained on skins and was oxidatively open fermented to increase the textural aspect and complexity. Pressings spent time in older French oak for the same reason. Yellow straw in colour, there is no doubt that the textural aspect of this wine sets it apart from most of its contemporaries. Finely crafted, it is beautifully fragrant with florals, limes and lemons, spices and a touch of orange rind. Good focus and energy, there is decent length here with a line of fine acidity running the full journey. Exquisitely balanced, it will provide pleasure for at least the next six to eight years and is already doing so.
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.
