Forrest Marlborough Riesling 2023
- 92
- $30
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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A slightly off-dry style of Riesling from the Southern Valleys district in Marlborough, New Zealand. This is a style that is enormously underrated. The colour is a pale lemon hue. Quite ripe in style, there are notes of lemon curd, peaches, white jasmine, citrus, apricot kernels and honeycomb on the nose. The wine is of medium length and it seems as though the palate is taking just a little time to catch up with the nose. It will get there. Best to give the wine two to three years and then enjoy it over the following ten to twelve. There is a clean finish and a good line of acidity. Worth cracking a bottle with your favourite Asian takeaway.
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.
