Hatch Clare Valley Watervale Riesling 2025
- 96
- $33
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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There are few people in this country who know more about making great Rieslings than Chris Hatcher, who cut his teeth on this variety in his early years, but was then as chief winemaker with Mildara Blass, responsible for vintage after vintage of great Rieslings. This one he gets from Watervale and it is so perfectly completed in every way. Fragrant, highly perfumed notes show a mix of orange rind and lemon rind with a slightly pithy character. The palate has a deep intensity and a razor-sharp acidity, but it sits with textural complexity, lifted with that slightly lemon zest and lime zest character. It’s a thoroughly engaging and beautiful example of Australian Riesling.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
