Elderton Eden Valley Riesling 2025
- 93
- $34
- Drink by: 2026-2038
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This very dry winter and growing season presented some challenges. But in the end, careful vineyard management ensured that the wines from the Eden Valley presented well. This has that spicy and slightly chalky character you might expect from the Eden Valley, with florals and a sort of limey character adding to its complex aromatics. The crunchy palate is dominated by a limey grapefruit influence and that fine pebbly minerality. It’s a wine of some tension and tightness, which is, of course, Eden Valley, but it will continue to evolve with reasonable cellaring time.
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.
