Pooley’s wines impressed me so much during my recent tastings in Tasmania, that I immediately made an appointment to visit Anna Pooley the very next day. From some of the oldest vines in the 1985 estate on the Coal River Valley, this is a riesling of great length and potential. It’s intense and taut, with […]
readEdition 134
A spicy and textural riesling from Derwent Valley and Coal River Valley fruit, providing a lemon juice, grapefruit zest and golden delicious apple bouquet and a peppery, spicy and textural palate built on gentle phenolic grip and tense Tasmanian acidity. It lingers very long and even. $23 at The Glass.
readIn contrast to Steve Lubiana’s two rieslings made in different ways from the same fruit, it’s the fruit sources that distinguish Nick Glaetzer’s Tasmanian rieslings. The gold dot on the bottle denotes what he considers to be better parcels of fruit, here 40% Tamar Valley and 60% Coal River Valley, with a total production of […]
readTime may show Pipers Brook to be the riesling of the vintage, and the longest lived. The bouquet is gorgeously appointed with lemon blossom, kaffir lime and granny smith apple, while the palate is impeccably honed, with pristine focus and purity of lime and granny smith apple fruit. A desperately pure riesling of elegant poise, […]
readZdar is Czech for “things worked out well” and it certainly lives up to its name in 2008. Testimony to the longevity of Tasmanian riesling, this wine holds considerable structural energy in its backbone of finely honed acidity, while building all the complexity of honey, glace apricot, mixed spice and marmalade. It’s beginning to round […]
read