Kilikanoon Mort’s Block Watervale Riesling 2020
- 96
- $25
- Drink by: 2022-2030
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Just two years old and creating a big impression from the first sniff with stunning aromatics to the fore. This is Clare Valley Riesling amplified with a powerful scent rich in lime cordial, grapefruit, apple and citrus blossom. The citrus motif continues afresh, at its insistent best, with a core of lime, lemon curd, crab apple and orange peel. Love the length to this little beauty and the limey twist to close. Classic stuff. It is both concentrated and fine thanks to some juicy, filigreed acidity. That acidity will bring with it extended potential for bottle ageing which is characteristic of this top single vineyard Riesling. Mort’s Block, boasting old, low-yielding vines planted in 1970, courtesy of Mort Mitchell, father of winemaker/proprietor, Kevin Mitchell, highlights the elegance and all-round class of the Watervale sub-region of the Clare Valley. And all of that for $25!
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.
