Vickery Polish Hill River Riesling 2024
- 95
- $28
- Drink by: 2025-2043
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Here’s a wine that celebrates and marks the contribution of the great John Vickery to Australian wine, particularly in the realm of Riesling, where he remains the acknowledged master. This is a wine of precision and fineness, with a degree of delicacy that can tend to mask the penetration and power that sits within. It was a terrific season in the Polish Hill River region, and this comes from a vineyard grown by the Paulett family. There’s purity, there’s a degree of tension, and there’s a beautiful minerality. On the palate, a fine, precise acidity cuts through the slightly textured mouthfeel, striking a perfect balance. There’s a little of that slightly wet pebble character that heightens the minerally mouthfeel. It’s a wine that is drinking so well now, but in keeping with the Vickery tradition, it could handle extended cellaring.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
