Parish Vineyard Sorell Riesling 2024
- 93
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2032
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Tassie Riesling can suffer from the same malady as that from New Zealand, a little too much fierce acidity. Fortunately, this wine is neatly balanced, so much so that it does not even need a makeover with any residual sweetness. From the Sorell district in Tasmania, not that far from Coal River, the colour is a very pale lemon with aromas of limes, florals, spices, wet slate, a broader range of citrus and an appealing note that pops up very occasionally in wines like this which reminds me of nothing so much as an Iced VoVo biscuit. The wine is well focused with good energy and likely to improve further over 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.
