Gundog Estate Canberra Riesling 2021
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2021 - 2031
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The Clare Valley and Eden Valley are acknowledged riesling masters. Let’s add a new name to that list: Canberra.
Cool climates bring out a delicacy in the grape. It’s here in spades, a light touch evident, pristine and pure through and through. And a gentleness, too.
Starts out a little reserved, teasing out apple and citrus with light floral aromas. Steely in structure with a lemony acidity that sits the tastebuds bolt upright. So young but it’s coming together nicely, a touch of musk, orange peel bringing floral shades to the citrus intensity on the palate. Reminds me of that classic saying, “iron fist in a velvet glove.” There’s a depth here just starting to be revealed.
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.
