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Wine Enthusiast
This wine has come up a few quality notches and a great vintage helps. It’s still young and therefore a little austere, but offers delicate notes of red-apple skins, lime, lavender talc, herbs and white spices. It’s bone dry and chalky textured with crunchy, laser sharp acidity, a strong mineral streak and fresh limey fruit right to the close. Acid hounds will dig this now but most will find another year or two in bottle will make this wine really come out of its shell. Little Peacock Imports. Editors’ Choice
Riesling possesses a remarkable ability to reflect the character of wherever it is grown while still maintaining its identity. A regal variety of incredible purity and precision, this versatile grape can be just as enjoyable dry or sweet, young or old, still or sparkling and can age longer than nearly any other white variety. Somm Secret—Given how difficult it is to discern the level of sweetness in a Riesling from the label, here are some clues to find the dry ones. First, look for the world “trocken.” (“Halbtrocken” or “feinherb” mean off-dry.) Also a higher abv usually indicates a drier Riesling.
Quite remote and unequalled in beauty, the wine regions of Westerm Australia promise endless physical and climatic diversity. From the coolest, seaside vineyards to the hottest inland zones, Western Australia is the source of some of the country’s most sought after wines.