Kilikanoon Mort’s 1973 Single Vineyard Watervale Riesling 2025
- 96
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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A Single Vineyard Riesling from the Watervale sub-region that delivers the kind of fruit weight and intensity that winemakers love. There’s an electric energy to this wine via some scintillating acidity. It’s like a lemon sorbet explosion on the tongue. White flowers and restrained florals gather on the bouquet with bath salts, kaffir lime, lime cordial and zest. The palate is linear, steely, with a driving acidity in charge which immediately indicates a wine capable of extended ageing. Lime, lemongrass and citrus flavours with green apple bite come together effortlessly. Tight as, consider this a fine wine for further cellaring.
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.
