Knappstein Clare Valley Enterprise Vineyard Spring Farm Riesling 2023
- 95
- $30
- Drink by: 2023-2038
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Sourced from the team’s Enterprise Vineyard, the Riesling from here has always provided an elegant style which continues here. The colour is a transparent straw. It is immediately obvious that this is a quality Clare Riesling. There is a minerally backing with notes of limes, florals and river stones. Intensity and elegance combine with bright acidity and very good balance. Still very much in its youth, it would benefit from remaining untouched for two to three years, but will provide great drinking for the following ten to fifteen. There really is very good intensity here, for the full length. And the wine is very long. A Riesling of serious power and class that is crazy good value.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
