RockBare The Clare Valley Riesling 2021
- 93
- $20
- Drink by: 2022-2031
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Reaches deep into its regional DNA to present a riesling that is steely, brimming in lime juiciness and mineral acidity. That’s a recipe for a classic style Clare riesling right there, and it’s succinctly encapsulated in this single vineyard wine. Brings a lovely, subtle fragrance of apple blossom, lime zest, grapefruit and spiced orange peel. Raises the ante considerably when you taste that heady spice wedged neatly between citrus and spiced apple that brings with it a mid-palate smoothness. Runs long, driven by a tight mineral acidity, the latter is a real feature of the wine, gifting it not only length but a bright liveliness. So, all up, a ripper Clare riesling for the price.
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.
