Kilikanoon Wines Killerman’s Run Riesling 2021

To age or not to age, that is the question with Clare Valley riesling. With Killerman’s Run 2021 Riesling, the answer is quite straightforward: drink it now. There may be some benefit in putting it in the cellar, under the bed, but then you would be missing out on all of that delightful, fresh, immediate drinkability.

It’s fairly humming in citrus, honeysuckle, grapefruit, orange peel, lime cordial aromas. And, yes, that many descriptors indicates a pretty complex offering to the senses. There’s a lovely depth of zingy, zesty flavour, the kind the Clare Valley does so well, which is in part from the zippy acidity, in part from the citrus brightness of fruit. And it’s got length. All of that for $22 spells bargain in my book.

Jeni Port

Wine critic at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic