R/23 - Riesling

Riesling should feel like that first swim of the summer.

It jolts you and almost immediately is lingering and refreshing.

From 2023, this is the 14th consecutive vintage from the same Clare Valley vineyard.
A pedigree that endures to the origins of Vinteloper. 

This is a wine that fills us with pride.
It's a reflection of 13 previous years of experience, review and analysis of the 1%ers. 

Those learnings and focus are really beginning to bring results.

R/19 Rieslng [2019] Bronze Medal - Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2019
R/20 Riesling [2020] Bronze Medal - Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2020
R/21 Riesling [2021] Gold Medal - Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2021
R/22 Riesling [2022] Gold Medal - Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2022
R/23 Riesling [2023] Silver Medal - Clare Valley Wine Show 2023

Let it take you to a place with fresh seafood, blue skies and freedom.

It starts with the straw green hue. A preview of the freshness to come.

Green apple skin flavour and acidity braces.
Then a tightly wound mineral palate layered with freshly squeezed lime juice, Meyer lemon, and a whisper of white flowers and honeycomb.

A dead ringer for our 2022.  Electric.

The potential longevity of Riesling is apparent here, but equally, the balance allows for a rewarding young wine.

Single Vineyard
Planted 2000
Elevation 440m
E/W orientation.
Grower: Greg Bryksy
Production: 546 dozen
Label Art: @shazhong

Harvest date: 21st March 2023
3 weeks later than the 2022 vintage due to cooler ripening season.

Long [approx 31 days], cool, controlled fermentation.
Temperature held at 13-16C
100% stainless steel.

We do not use fining agents to polish our Riesling as it's our philosophy that slight 'imperfections' are the essence of character, in wine as in life.

It's pretty simple. Our owner and founder, David, has parents who have an Oyster farm called Pacific Estate Oysters.

Nothing beats drinking Riesling from an Oyster shell after you've just slammed a freshly shucked, creamy and salty Pacific Oyster.

Silver Medal.
90 points.
Clare Valley Wine Show 2023.

Bronze Medal
Royal Adelaide Wine Show 2023