Pewsey Vale The Contours Riesling 10-Year Museum Release 2015
- 96
- $55
- Drink by: 2025-2035
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When I saw this wine in the tasting line-up, I couldn’t wait to get my mitts on it, and from the first aromas, it certainly didn’t disappoint. It is a wonderful example of a mature Riesling that demonstrates the glorious beauty of Eden Valley when it comes to aged Rieslings. The striking feature is, despite the 10 years, it still shows a high degree of primary lemony floral notes with that slightly minerally bath salts character. Just a faint hint of toasty marmalade, but it’s hardly entered that phase. It’s only just dipped a toe in the water with crisp, fine acidity and a very long finish. Absolutely superb.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
