Riesling

Great Southern

Riesling

Astute fruit sourcing has enabled a lightly flavoured elegant young riesling to be produced. Minerals and spices on the nose with a typical lemon zest influence. The palate is bracing and tight with a degree of tension through to long finish. Bone dry finish.

Mount Barker

Riesling

This has turned out to be a delicate and restrained riesling, but the linear intensity is still evident. Slightly talcy bath salts aromatics open with a faint lemon zest influence. The palate is fine and delicate structure with a precise lingering acidity sustaining a long finish.

Great Southern

Riesling

A fine and quite delicate riesling from the Great Southern. The aromas display some rather nice florals with a light citrus minerality and fine slaty nuance. The palate is precise with a degree of tension producing a lancing crisp acidity. Shows the virtues of this vintage

Frankland River

Riesling

I suspected this might be a pretty good riesling from this region and this vintage. Well, I got it right. A pristine and pure riesling with notes of lemon zest and talcy bath salts. The palate is where this cracking wine really excels. It has a fine texture with tremendous intensity and vibrancy. Minerally, with spicy lemon characters. There’s a...

Mount Barker

Riesling

Tight and tense riesling from this vineyard just on the outskirts of Mount Barker. Minerally and quite spicy aromas with a citrus lime character dominant. The palate is tight with that tension building before releasing into a long precise finish. Retains a refreshing crunchy palate feel.

Frankland River

Riesling

A really pretty and pristine riesling that says much about this season. Brilliant luminosity in the glass and then aromas of light citrus and spice with a little apple character pounce. The palate is fine and linear with tremendous length. A classically defined riesling and one of the best I can recall in this long line of rieslings.

Mount Barker

Riesling

In any one year you can guarantee this outstanding vineyard will produce a great riesling. So, here’s yet another. It’s a tight tense style but there is still flavour intensity deep within. A mix of florals and steely wet pebble with a distinctive regional spicy minerality. The palate is arrow straight, long and tense with a bracing acidity sustaining the...

Mount Barker

Riesling

This excellent riesling comes from the Whispering Hill Vineyard near Mount Barker. Floral aromas merge with lemon rind and subtle green apple. The palate is slightly textured but retains a fine linear feel with excellent fruit intensity showing just a little regional spice.

South Australia

Riesling

Consistently one of Australia’s finest rieslings. This has a beautifully fresh and vibrant aroma greeting from the start. There are notes of perfumed lemon zest and lime jumping from the glass. The palate is fine and precise with a nice acidity driving through the middle. Sure, it’s light bodied but there is power here that extends through the palate which...

Mount Barker

Riesling

An intense and lively riesling sourced from old vines on the Langton vineyard just on the edge of Mount Barker. Spicy aromas over a mix of lemon pith and green apple characters immediately engage. The palate is pure and lively with plenty of racy flavours building to a long finish. It was a hot season, but the cooler southern vineyards...

Porongurup

Riesling

Okay, Diletti flexes his considerable winemaking skills with this Porongurup riesling. It was barrel fermented and then received extended lees contact, all designed to build texture into a naturally fine and linear variety. You can only do this if you have the fruit and that was certainly the case in 2023. The spicy characters of the region have given way...

Porongurup

Riesling

Consistently one of the best WA rieslings over many years, and even in a hideously hot season like 2024 the cooler climes of the Porongurup work their magic to produce a quality wine. More in the spicy minerally zone than pure citrus, as evident on the nose and the precise palate. Retains a fresh vibrancy with a lingering pleasing finish.

Mount Barker

Riesling

Beautiful riesling from the famous Wyjup Vineyard in Mount Barker. Opens with a healthy aroma of lime dominant citrus against muted floral scents. Such a good season delivers fruit that intense yet precise and controlled with a fine natural acidity. The palate has a degree of tension creating a fine minerally thread through to the sustained finish.

Mount Barker

Riesling

The striking feature, apart from the fact this is a super wine, is that it has hardly moved. It is still showing a dominant primary citrus character of riesling despite being six years old. Just the faintest of developing toastiness sits in the background. Intense and engaging palate with a subtle spicy buttered toasty character emerges gradually. It is a...

Frankland River

Riesling

This is a combination of fruit from two vineyards, Frankland Estate and Netley Road. Has a distinctive spicy talcy character which I think comes off that Netley Road component. There is texture and palate poise here which might come from some of the lees influence adding a deep textural intensity. It’s a very good wine showing what can be done...

Frankland River

Riesling

Opens with a lime and lemon intensity on the nose. There’s a little of that chalky slaty tension in there. It has a suggestion of fruit sweetness, but it is effectively dry. Fine linear palate with a sustained finish. Comes off vines planted in 1997. There’s a hint of lemon rind in there as well. Excellent balance with a degree...

Great Southern

Riesling

This is a slightly different take on this variety which stems from the winemaking. The fruit was sourced from Albany and was then fermented on full solids in a stainless-steel egg. It’s contributed to a beautifully vibrant and lively style with a racy acidity delving deep through the lemony palate. Fine chalky acid completes a different expression of the variety.

Mount Barker

Riesling

Has a distinctive lemony and slightly talcy aroma. It’s 70% Mount Barker and 30% Porongurups fruit. The Porongurup component gives it the edginess and palate tension, adding to its precision and focus. The palate has intensity and flavour with plenty of fruit depth and its slightly more generous mouth feel is a product of this very warm vintage. It’s dry...

Porongurup

Riesling

Interesting take on riesling. It's all Porongurups and all fermented in amphora. Light pressing and wild fermentation has helped build a palate profile. It’s a sort of non-conforming wine with flavour and texture. Muted and less profound citrus aromas, but there is still a keen acidity to the finish.

Mount Barker

Riesling

This is a first-rate riesling from this special site in a special year. It is expressive, revealing on the palate early and pushing through into its sustained finish. The site is a key part of this wine. Its orientation pushes picking time up to three weeks later than other parts of the vineyard, leading to more hang time, allowing the...

Pemberton

Riesling

A highly fragrant off-dry style of riesling. Loaded with citrus notes of lime with a little spicy lift. Beautiful palate has a gentle feel about it with slightly orange zest characters. Has a clean and pure palate extending to a very long precise finish

Pemberton

Riesling

A pristine and pure dry style riesling displaying delightful floral limey aromas. The palate has a chalky racy sherbet-like character with a subtle degree of tension. Finishes with a precise minerality. Excellent wine now but has cellaring potential.

Frankland River

Riesling

This also comes off the Isolation Ridge vineyard. A combination of tank and oak fermentation is used to create its distinctive style. It’s made as an off-dry style after the fermentation is stopped and spends nine months in a combination of tank and old oak. A beautiful wine that reveals characters of spices and a beautiful chalky minerality. The off...

Frankland River

Riesling

One of the very best Isolation Ridge rieslings produced. It’s from an exceptional vintage showing the pristine purity and minerally tension of great rieslings. Comes from a combination of clones planted in 1988. Now this is not your usual riesling. It was left on lees for nine months and about 10% was matured in oak. The result is a wine...

Frankland River

Riesling

This has become one of the most interesting WA wine releases. It’s from the Geisenheim riesling clone close planted on high ironstone and after vinification with no additions it is put into 500l and 1000l old oak where wild yeast fermentation does its magic. So, this is riesling made in the old way, hence the name. Spicy with a creamy...

Great Southern

Riesling

A beautifully pristine and delicate riesling from the Blue Lake vineyard in Mount Barker. Slightly floral and citrussy notes on the nose with a dash of talcy spiciness. The palate is so appealing with its fine acid gently lifting it through to a long finish.

Mount Barker

Riesling

This has developed very quickly into an outstanding Great Southern riesling. It comes from the Misery Hill vineyard in the Porongurup. Combines riesling intensity and tension into a bracing linear style. Aromas of spice and lemony lime zest with a little minerality. It was a very good season, and this is a marvelous example of the year. Outstanding.

Frankland River

Riesling

Frankland River in 2023 was one of those vintages, where everything just fell into place. And the result is a sensational riesling from one of the best Australian regions for this variety. Spicy lemon scents open before releasing into the crisp intensity of the citrus dominant palate. Little powdery acidity and a squeeze of lime add the final flourish.

Mount Barker

Riesling

A wine that captures so much of that Mount Barker riesling character. The aromas are spicy, which is a trait of this region, with a zest lemon and lime edge. The palate is tense and linear but with tremendous depth of fruit supported by a racy minerally acidity. Presents with a light delicacy yet the persistence is a feature.

Mount Barker

Riesling

Beautifully pristine riesling with a delightful fresh purity. It’s all free run juice which shows on the palate with its bright fresh fruit characters of spice and lemon with a squeeze of finishing lime. Shows excellent texture but retains that linear mouth feel through to a very long finish.

Great Southern

Riesling

This is a first-rate example of the off-dry style. Yes, it has sweetness, but the fine minerally acidity has ensured it retains its lively non-cloying mouth feel. A lemon and orange peel aroma sets you off into the palate which has excellent depth of flavour with a lift of lemon zest and crisp acid on the finish., Serve it nice...

Great Southern

Riesling

Another very good riesling from this Denmark vineyard. A merging of cut lime and lemon zest with traces of spicy minerals a feature. It’s bone dry and long with a precise mouth feel through to the finish.

Great Southern

Riesling

The spicy minerality of this taut yet still slightly textural riesling is fascinating. White florals on the nose with a little lemony citrus. The palate is controlled and persistent with tremendous length. It was a terrific season, and this one has turned out beautifully. One of the best from this excellent vintage.

Geographe

Riesling

This comes from an outstanding Ferguson Valley vineyard that makes some of the finest rieslings in the State. Interesting use of pressings and solids has built in a textural mouthfeel without compromising the essential linear palate feel. There’s citrus but then there is that appley character which seems part of the vineyard. Lovely talcy acid and a trace of minerally...

Margaret River

Riesling

This was such a good season for white aromatics in Margaret River, so little wonder this riesling has turned out so well. Has a talcy floral aroma with lovely fresh fruit intensity supported by an oyster shell minerality, Linear and very long finish. Nice wine.

Great Southern

Riesling

An excellent riesling from this wonderful year. It’s taken from the Hayview Vineyard near Mount Barker. Lively aromas of lemon and lime with a slightly sherbet-like character. The palate is deeply intense on its linear lines to the very long finish. Has a nice crisp limestone chalky character. Crunchy and zingy in the mouth.

Geographe

Riesling

This is a sort of modern old style of riesling. Old in that it was fermented in old oak, modern in that many younger winemakers are dabbling in this throw-back approach. The approach seems to heighten the vineyard musk characters and mute the citrus. It's also created a more textural and less tense expression of the fruit. So, it's quite...

Geographe

Riesling

This is as good a riesling as Talisman have produced and they have produced some good'uns. There is tension at every step through the lift of citrus and a lemon blossom musk-like aroma. The palate is where it tightens up but then deep down there is the fruit intensity of a pure and lively young riesling. The lip-smacking finish completes...

Great Southern

Riesling

The fruit for this excellent riesling comes from the Misery Hill Vineyard in the Porongurup Range. Strikes immediately with a lime zest and sherbet-like aroma merged with a slightly chalky limestone dust. The palate is tense and tightly framed but there is texture. A trace of sea spray lifts from the nose to complete a very good wine.

Great Southern

Riesling

A delightfully fragrant Mount Barker riesling. Bath salts and spice with a little lemon rind, strike immediately. The palate delivers a degree of tension and precision while carrying a deep intensity. It's been made with a deliberate hands-off approach to provide a direct line into the variety. Excellent.