Speakeasy Riesling Adelaide Hills 2018
- 94
- $25
- Drink by: 2024-2025
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Plenty of rain earlier in the vintage, followed by warmer conditions, enabled the wine to exhibit both elegance and ripeness. Of the 2018-2020 trio, for me, this takes the line by a whisper, they all enjoy similar winemaking methods. Yellow gold in hue but there are flecks of green here and the nose has that wonderful lemon butter on toast note we see in more developed Rieslings of quality. There is bright citrus and even a touch of honeycomb on the finish. This, though, is still fresh and elegant, even while it exhibits some development. Good focus and length, while the intensity remains evident for the full journey. This very fine Riesling surely has a decade ahead of it.
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.
