Howard Park Porongurup Riesling 2019
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2020 - 2029
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Arriving fully-formed and ready to get down to business, it’s rare to see such a young Riesling so self-assured upon release. So varietally sharp.
Seven months since bottling and it’s ready to go, with the scent of orange blossom florals and a citrus lift that is mostly grapefruit and lime hanging in the air.
Lime is the pervading, enduring motif, a lime cordial intensity on the palate which (personally-speaking) is swoon-worthy. It’s a mix of sucking on citrus before that first sip of Corona, with a salty tang attached. Brightens your day.
Dry, intense with texture and flavour and, yet, still so far to go.
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.
