Harewood Estate Porongurup Riesling 2024
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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Anyone not familiar with the Rieslings from the Great Southern region, including those from Porongurup need to lift their game. These are seriously good wines, great for enjoying young but also they are able to age brilliantly. Get on board. The colour here is a shimmering pale lemon. There are notes of freshly sliced citrus, oyster shells and florals with hints of honeysuckle and beeswax and a touch of pink grapefruit. There is lemony acidity, good focus, direction and persistence. Finely balanced, it should provide pleasure for ten to fifteen years. This is a lovely Riesling.
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.
