Vinoculation

I love Riesling. Riesling I love. The thing I love is Riesling.

And oddly I have almost no Australian Riesling and almost no dry Riesling from anywhere. I’m off the uberlime Clare Valley things. I have no floral beauties from Eden. I don’t even have the bathsalts minerally morsels from western Victoria.

But from time to time I do buy Riesling from Clonakilla. It rounds out a case when I buy my Shiraz Viogniers, but I think I’d buy it anyway. It’s a lovely drink.

The 2011s are in the post and this bottle of 2010 has been on the bench for a while. There’s a Chilli and lemon chicken in the oven, so I reckon we might move from dry to off dry over the evening.

This is lime juice and florals to smell, lightly spiced with some vanilla. Airy and delicate in its way. Floral and lemonade on the attack, this is fresh and bracing and hasn’t fallen into any sort of hole. I don’t recall the 2010’s being rated as bracing and built around a strong acid frame but it certainly seems that way. Yellow and white flowers, lemons, a touch of passionfruit and pineapple, just a hint of development appearing. Fresh and alive, what a joy.

Respect Tim Kirk – if there was no Syrah in Canberra you’d be a star for this wine alone.

Less respect for this version of Wordpress - inserting images seems to be a challenge >:-(  .

Cheers

Andrew