Pikes Clare Valley Riesling Traditional 2021
- 95
- $42
- Drink by: 2026-2034
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Here’s a Riesling from the Clare Valley with a little extra bottle age, and it’s just starting to show what it can do. On the nose, there’s a very fine, slightly toasty character, with buttered marmalade influences, but still with a lemony zip. The palate is still light-bodied but is starting to show some lovely development, albeit with some years still to go. It’s a terrific wine that shows the bridge between the really youthful and the more mature, striking somewhere in between, which is just about where I like to drink these wines. A terrific example of the style and the variety.
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.
