Leura Park Estate Riesling 2019
- 92
- $35
- Drink by: 2020 - 2021
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A tiny 11.5% alcohol and so, so complex.
Isn’t it always the way with Riesling, that it is the quiet ones that fill the glass with the most beguiling blend of floral aromatics and flavours?
Honeysuckle fruit blossom to the fore, lemon curd with a fruit tingle brightness. The scent is captivating. Not sure if it’s the brisk acidity or fruit intensity that powers the wine, but there is genuine complexity aided by a smidge of sweetness with nougat, orange peel, spice. Waxy textural mouthfeel.
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.
