Pikes Wines The Merle Riesling 2021
- 96
- $55
- Drink by: 2021-2041
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The Merle’s number one rule is: don’t open The Merle too young.
Put The Merle under the bed, at the back of that cabinet in the garage, away from temptation and forget. Three, five, seven years is a fair plan to consider before opening.
This is a wine with time on its hands.
Tight as a drum, coiled, acidity is firm and fruit is still emerging but you can taste the concentration, the wine’s lemon, lime and apple essence.
This is Polish Hill riesling purity and intensity in the glass with signature spice. Love that spice. Almond meal kind of texture is moving everything along nicely, but The Merle is way too early to broach. That can’t be said enough.
This is steely tight. You know what you have to do – wait!
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.
