Erin Eyes Emerald Isle Riesling 2024
- 92
- $28
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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Exciting to see the new 2024 whites starting to arrive, including this fine Clare Riesling. A very pale lemon here, this is bright and flavoursome but still with very youthful aromatics. We have florals, citrus, a minerally backing and the palate providing us with delightful fresh pears and wet stones. Shown good focus and crunchy acidity, there is an impression of fruit sweetness here with very good length. Enjoy this over the next four to eight years.
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.
