Forrest Marlborough Riesling 2020
- 91
- $30
- Drink by: 2024-2027
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Off-dry or dry? To an Australian Riesling drinker, this New Zealand Riesling at 4.5gL residual sugar, would be on the cusp of off-dry. Admittedly, it’s a fine distinction, one the Riesling carries well, together with some developing bottle age characters. The floral beauty of the aroma is off the charts in jasmine, honeysuckle, wildflowers, lemongrass, and ginger amid citrus and apple scents. Bottle age has brought with it a warm, arresting mouthfeel and concentration of spiced apple, lime, grapefruit and sweet honeyed flavour. Bright mineral acidity offers good balance.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
