Vickery The Reserve Watervale Riesling 2021
- 96
- $39
- Drink by: 2025-2045
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If one might state out the outset, this is a serious contender for the best value of the year. A brilliant wine, superbly handled, from a great vintage and, of course, a magic region. The fruit here hails from the Castine “Hayshed” block. There is early complexity here, but it will undoubtedly increase in the coming years. Very pale straw in colour, the nose exhibits notes of spices and limes. An array of lifted fragrances, this is both delicate and yet intense. There is elegance and the finish is incredibly persistent with knife edge balance. What a cracking Riesling! And the value? This is as close to legalising theft as possible. An incredibly good buy. This has fifteen to twenty years 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.
