Winemaker Notes
Bouquet: Rich tropical lime, enhanced with appealing nuances of honeysuckle and floral spice.
Palate: Attractive tropical lime and floral fruit flavors with hint of spice fill the mouth. The rich Riesling flavors are harmoniously balanced with a soft but crisp acidity providing vitality and length to the palate.
Freshness and intensity drive this very generous wine. An excellent chalky structure and natural acidity provide length and balance to the powerful fruit flavors. To ensure that the wine has the potential to develop classic honey Riesling flavors with careful maturation, the bottle is sealed with a screw cap.
This wine is an ideal partner to fresh seafood and delicate white meat dishes.
Professional Ratings
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.
The Barossa Zone encompasses the Barossa Valley and Eden Valley. Some of the oldest vines in Australia can be found here.
Barossa Valley of course is the most important and famous wine growing region in all of Australia where 140+ year-old, dry-farmed Shiraz vines still produce inky, purple and dense juice for some of Australia's best wines.
In the cooler, wetter Eden Valley sub-region, the Hill of Grace vineyard is home to famous Shiraz vines from the 1800s but the region produces also some of Australia’s very best and age-worthy Rieslings.