Orlando Steingarten Eden Valley Riesling 2019
- 95
- $50
- Drink by: 2020 - 2034
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Steingarten, now there’s a timeless Riesling name.
Recent vintages have been released under the broader ‘Barossa’ zone appellation identity, but it’s so good to see the return of the single vineyard’s origin, Eden Valley, to the label. At 400 metres altitude and with hard soils, yields might be low but fruit concentration is off the charts.
Steingarten offers a masterclass in what we perceive as minerality, that tang of stone, flint, slate that expresses itself so beautifully aromatically and texturally.
Focused and pure bouquet of honeysuckle, apple blossom, flint, lime cordial intensity.
Each pass over the lips sees something new emerge: ruby grapefruit, sweet lime, peach, lemon sherbet. A seamless beauty, one long stream of intense Riesling consciousness. You can purchase the wine here.
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.
