Pikes Clare Valley Traditional Riesling 2026
- 94
- $30
- Drink by: 2026-2036
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There’s a racy, almost zingy character to this bright, high-energy Riesling. It’s quite light-bodied, but there’s tremendous fruit intensity. The fruit comes from the famed Polish Hill River area, which produces some of the finest wines in the Clare Valley. There are nice, fine citrus notes and a crunchy, pebbly, slate-like character on the nose. The palate displays a degree of tension, but with a refreshing, fine lift. A thoroughly delicious wine for drinking in the short term, but it should also be good for another 10 years.
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.
