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Longview Macclesfield Riesling 2022

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Riesling is enjoying an absolutely golden era, aided by a couple of sensational vintages in 2021 and 2022. Adelaide Hills Riesling may not enjoy the cache of those hailing from the Clare and Eden Valleys, but they most definitely should not be ignored. The fruit for this one, from the sub-region of Macclesfield, is from the winery’s 27-year-old vineyard, facing southeast and situated on ironstone. Destemmed, crushed and cool fermented in stainless steel, without the inclusion of any pressings. Gin clear in colour (or perhaps in the lack of it), there are good, intense, classic Riesling notes immediately apparent. Spices, minerals, limes, florals, a hint of wet river stones. Good concentration throughout, this is poised, taut, focused and very long. It is an attractive Riesling, worth drinking now for its freshness and verve, or cellar for a decade for the complexity and development to follow.

Ken Gargett

Contributor at Winepilot

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.

Wine writer and critic