Riversdale Estate Riesling 2021
- 95
- $36
- Drink by: 2022-2028
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Crisp, crunchy acidity is the byword here. It’s a cool climate signature that works hand in hand with lovely aromatics and a purity of citrus fruits. An apple and citrus blossom perfume fills the glass alongside green apple and lime zest. It’s an intense start to a wine moulded around a resounding lime and lemon acid tang and concentration of fruit. Injects grapefruit pith, green apple, lime zest, with a touch of ginger, kaffir lime leaf-like savouriness and a developing texture mid palate. Plenty of drive and energy on display here, and that steely resolution on the finish is your insurance policy for future age-ability. Tasmanian Riesling a quiet achiever? Think again.
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.
