Mitchell McNicol Riesling 2016

Fabulous intensity, concentration and warmth on show here. This is a wine that highlights, as if it was needed, just how magical aged Clare Valley Riesling can be. Honey on toast with apricot, lemon drop, citrus and baked apple aromas with fruit still very much alive next to some developing secondary characters. It is the concentration and palate richness that so impresses, an outpouring of deep citrus and spice with musk, honey, toast, biscuit notes and an almost lemon butter flavour and mouthfeel with gingernut biscuit notes. The balance is sublime thanks to the role of acidity in perfect pitch. And the length . . .