Mitchell McNicol Riesling 2016
- 96
- $60
- Drink by: 2025-2036
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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 . . .
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.
