Precious Little Clare Valley Riesling 2023
- 92
- $25
- Drink by: 2024-2033
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For Clare Valley wine producers, 2023 was definitely a lucky number. It notched up the third great Clare Valley Riesling vintage in succession, a truly rare event and one that should excite every Australian Riesling lover. The ’23 vintage brought a lovely natural purity of fruit to this wine. Great concentration of lime through out: lime zest, lime cordial, lime juice. It’s joined by citrus blossom aromatics, grapefruit and talc aromas. Acidity is bright, zesty and fresh, it will put the Riesling in good stead on its journey. The palate zings in lemon tang, spiced apple and the crunch of green apple. Good drinking now, but if you can 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.
