Lange Estate Providence Road Riesling 2024
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2025-2031
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Frankland River Riesling is now more than a well established category, providing so many scintillating wines in recent years. Riesling lovers need to take serious note, if they are not already doing so. A very pale lemon hue, the nose here opens with lovely lemon butter notes, florals and even a hint of mango. Elegantly and intensely fragrant, yet always balanced, there is fine acidity, focus and concentration with good length and a supporting note of river stones, always there and yet never intrusive. Perhaps one for drinking slightly sooner than some, but it will easily handle half a dozen years in the cellar.
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.
