Limefinger Polish Hill River Solace Riesling 2024
- 97
- $39
- Drink by: 2024-2049
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Many years ago, in one of my many less careful moments, I managed to stick my finger in an electric socket. It was not a pleasant experience. There is a touch of the electric shock about this scintillating Riesling, but it is a great deal more enjoyable than a socket. The wine hits with the force of a shock. Wonderful stuff. The colour here is the very palest lemon hue imaginable. The nose is fragrant, focused and beautifully aromatic. Poised and taut, there are notes of florals, limes, river stones, lemon curd, spices and grapefruit pith. A gossamer structure, this is all steel and silk. Perfect balance, incredible length, fine acidity, the intensity never relents. Love it. Drink now and for the next fifteen to twenty-five years.
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.
