The Lane Gathering Adelaide Hills Riesling 2023
- 91
- $35
- Drink by: 2024-2029
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Think the Adelaide Hills is exclusively Chardonnay country? The Gathering range from The Lane Vineyard looks to other white grapes suited to the region, and Riesling is a natural. The style is intended for early drinking, but as it is wedded to some pretty keen acidity, it could go a little longer in the bottle. The wine is all lime cordial and lemon intensity and summery florals with some arresting lychee, snow pea and gai choy. Picked early, it’s brisk and citrus keen with some attractive dusty lemon depth to the middle palate. Finishes with a nice edgy, clean, full stop of acidity.
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.
