Howard Park Great Southern Riesling 2024
- 95
- $36
- Drink by: 2025-2038
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Beautifully composed with the odd hint of its regional birthplace with an ongoing thread of acacia, wild spring flowers and citrus blossom on the aroma together with lemon balm, lemon zest, grapefruit pith, ginger and spice. It’s one racy youngster of a Riesling, youthful and full of promise. Acid heads will love the brisk acidity, others will see the benefit of some further ageing. I’m sitting on the fence with this question, I can see both parties have a point. The juiciness of the citrus fruits is a real feature on the palate together with tart zesty notes, a touch of acacia and herbals like rosemary and green apple. Is assured of a long life.
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.
