Leconfield Coonawarra Old Vines Riesling 2024
- 95
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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The great white grape of Coonawarra shines here in a top vintage year. It’s a cracking wine with old vines (planted 1974) bringing that extra touch of class, not to mention intensity of fruit character, to the glass. Aromas of honeysuckle, Thai basil, ginger, lime, citrus and apple. Flavours are equally intense and concentrated with a thread of beeswax that brings that added sense of complexity. This is quite the all-round Riesling experience a la Coonawarra, promoting the region’s signature lemon, lime and grapefruit pith chalky texture against a fresh and electric acid profile.
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.
