Riposte The Scimitar Riesling 2024
- 93
- $24
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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A fine single vineyard from an excellent vintage in the Clare Valley. For those convinced that every year gets hyped up it doesn’t really matter, and in fairness we have had three great years in the last four – 2024, 2022 and 2021, with 2023 no slouch. However, even at this ridiculously early stage, there are considerable mutterings that 2025 will be an extremely challenging one, so make the most of ’24 while you can. A very pale lemon, the nose here is ripe and generous, perhaps a little more so than we sometimes see with Clare Riesling, offering lovely notes of lemon and lime – citrus very much to the fore here. There is a minerally, rather chalky backing and the wine had good focus on the palate. Bright acidity runs the length and the finish is very persistent. An eight to ten year proposition. Good buying.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
