Vickery Eden Valley Riesling 2022
- 95
- $24
- Drink by: 2022-2032
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Open a bottle, pour a glass and stand back. Prepare yourself for the aromatic scent that can hit you like a hammer. This vintage is chock full of everything we love about Eden Valley Riesling in spades. My notes started to look like a shopping list: talc, white flowers, bath salts, white pepper, Thai basil, green apple, green papaya and, finally, dusty lemon. I added preserved lemon and ginger to the list when I finally tore myself away from the perfume and tasted the wine. You might say it’s a complex, yes. Acidity is keen, a might sharper or at least more pronounced than its sister Riesling from Watervale and it’s sustained from go to whoa with good depth of concentration. Another ’22 riesling for the cellar – I suspect that cellar is about to get pretty crowded.
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.
