Norfolk Rise Vineyard High and Dry Riesling 2023
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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From the same parcel of vines at Mt Benson as provides the fruit for their Summer Riesling, the team advise that this is their first for a decade. The result is an elegant, rather delicate wine, a classic Aussie Riesling. For those who enjoy something a little different, Riesling from this region is not a common style. Wines like this and it might be. A shining lemon hue, this is a subtle and more minerally style. Citrus and lemon flavours are joined by hints of stonefruits and florals. There is excellent length here and the intensity is maintained throughout. A Riesling of fine balance, which should drink well for at least the next six to eight 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.
