Howard Park Museum Release Mount Barker Riesling 2014
- 97
- $45
- Drink by: 2025-2030
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An absolute stunner! From the first sniff, the first taste, you are entering classic aged Riesling territory that is all class. Both fruit, acidity and aged characters combine to produce a beautifully complex wine still quite youthful and vital – punchy in fresh acidity, to be precise – and showing what we sometimes miss out on when we consume a good Riesling way too young. The scent carries honey, lemon curd, high spices, buttered toast, lemon balm and the most attractive, deep honeysuckle aromatics. The palate is seamless, honeyed and inviting, intense in fruit and a complex meshing of citrus, spice, florals and honeyed toast. It runs effortlessly long. Bravo!
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.
