Kerri Greens Mornington Peninsula Citrea Riesling 2023

This is the kind of Riesling that can make you yearn to seek out other expressions of the grape from the Mornington Peninsula, a region where Chardonnay dominates. It has everything I love in the variety: searing acidity, tongue-tingling minerality, and beautiful aromatics that force you to smell the wine for an awfully long time. It excites with vibrant lemon, lime, chalk, apricot, white flowers and pineapple, likely stemming from its ripe fruit (13.5%ABV). It has a full and rich feeling in the mouth, almost oily and slippery, with a sherbet-like sensation. It should cellar quite well for at least the next five years although it’d be hard to resist drinking it all right now.

Brendan Black

Wine Critic at Winepilot

Brendan is a Melbourne-based writer, filmmaker, playwright and composer. Since 2013, he has been published in national and regional Australian titles such as Halliday Magazine, Gourmet Traveller Wine, Grapegrower and Winemaker, Gippslandia, Gippsland Lifestyle, Yarra Valley and Ranges and Gippsland Country Life magazines. Brendan was a finalist for 2024 Wine Communicator Awards in the 'Best Published Feature Article or Wine Column' category. He has completed the WSET Level 3 course (gaining a Distinction) and has a passion for small producers of wine, beer and spirits. He is also the co-editor of 'I'm Not a Film Star: David Bowie as Actor' for Bloomsbury Academic.

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