Pepper Tree Stone Mountain Single Vineyard Riesling 2021
- 94
- $50
- Drink by: 2021-2027
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Yes, the Orange region can do chardonnay standing on its head. But have you tried its Riesling? If not, you are in for a very big treat. Stone Mountain is sourced from a 800 metre high vineyard – that’s cool – and it shows in the excellent purity of fine acidity that prevails throughout this wine. The scent of citrus is all-pervading – mandarin skin, lemon, lime zest – with pretty apple blossom notes nicely entangled. Aforementioned line of filigree-fine acidity is striking, the perfect vehicle for the driving citrus beat of lemon sherbet and zest with apple and slatey chalk to finish.
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.
