Double Oaks Riesling 2020
- 94
- $36
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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Ah, in the words of Monty Python: “now for something completely different”. This is a Riesling quite different from most you might have tasted. It’s been basket pressed and racked to old oak barrels and then barrel fermented with half wild yeast. That’s the first important piece of its journey. It’s then aged for four months on fine lees. The result is quite a beautiful wine with the texture a key distinguishing feature. Love the palate with its rich fruit intensity with a trace of varietal lemony zing in the background. An exciting tweak on a traditional Aussie variety.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
