Harewood Estate Porongurup Riesling Museum Release 2016
- 95
- $50
- Drink by: 2026-2041
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How many wines with a decade under their belt in a winery cellar can you find, let alone at this price? Love the museum release program. Love the price even more. The colour is still a youthful lemon/straw. The wine is beautifully aromatic with notes of lemon sponge cake, florals and a touch of stewed pears. There is still a flick of bright acidity evident, and the wine has excellent length. Finely balanced, there is just the right amount of tension. Love it. A joy now but there really is no reason why this cannot be cellared to advantage for another ten to fifteen 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.
