Calvados, Gamay, tempranillo, ...

Shop By
View as Grid List

Showing 49-96 of 339 Results

Set Descending Direction
  1. Parish Vineyards Sorell Riesling 2024
    Parish Vineyards Sorell Riesling 2024

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2024
    Riesling
    Australia
    490
  2. Lucien Lardy Beaujolais Villages 2022
    Lucien Lardy Beaujolais Villages 2022

    70 year old vines here, from a vineyard that sits just outside Fleurie.
    Plenty of ripe raspberry and cherry, coffee grounds, some dried flower perfume. It’s fleshy and full of rich red fruits, some tobacco savoury character, dense stony tannin, with a slightly gritty finish of solid length... GARY WALSH, winefront.com

    Spiced red cherries, rosehip and rosemary notes lead into mid weight core. A rush of flavour greets you; roasted black and red cherries mix with raspberries while a thread of minerality and earthy flavours counter. Finishes with a tasty tannin chew, giving this wine dimension and charm. GABRIELLE POY
     

    2022
    Gamay
    France
    352
  3. Quealy 'Pobblebonk'  2024
    Quealy 'Pobblebonk' 2024

    Quite possibly the most delicious Pobblebonk to date. Riesling, friulano, pinot grigio and ribolla gialla are the friends, each fermented wild in used French oak, on full solids and later blended. It’s heady with meadow flowers, lemon blossom and hints of lemon verbena, really spicy with nutty, leesy aromas, and the palate is both textural and alive with fine acidity. Neat phenolics add to the pleasure of drinking this. (95) JANE FAULKNER, Halliday Wine Companion

    Light to mid straw colour in the glass, the bouquet savoury with some nutty notes possibly from barrel ferment, adding layers to the floral and spicy fruit aromas. Deliciously intense fruit on palate with a touch more dimension than the Quealy pinot grigios. It's truly more than the sum of its parts. A lovely drink, intense, long and harmonious, the finish lip-smackingly dry and appetising. (95), HUON HOOKE, The Real Review

    How do you make a melange of fruity, bitter and salty so perfectly? So easygoing, delivering the goods, not stingy on flavour, not pushy with perfume. Just right. Lightly honeyed, with pink rock salt to balance, crunch of pears and cashews, with a cooling aniseed to finish. Textural but smooth. Simply yum. Nailed it. (94), KASIA SOBIESIAK Kasia Sobiesiak, The Wine Front

    2024
    Friulano, Pinot Grigio, Ribolla Gialla, Riesling, White Blend
    Australia
    441
  4. Frankland Estate Alter Weg Riesling 2023
    Frankland Estate Alter Weg Riesling 2023

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2023
    Riesling
    Australia
    504
  5. Unkel Life's a Beach blend 2021
    Unkel Life's a Beach blend 2021

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2021
    chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Pinot noir, Riesling
    New Zealand
  6. Frankland Estate Alter Weg Riesling 2024
    Frankland Estate Alter Weg Riesling 2024

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2024
    Riesling
    Australia
    504
  7. Sinapius Jean Morice Rose 2022
    Sinapius Jean Morice Rose 2022

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2022
    Gamay
    Australia
    490
  8. Murdoch Hill Sulky Riesling 2021
    Murdoch Hill Sulky Riesling 2021

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2021
    Riesling
    Australia
    340
  9. Lucien Lardy Fleurie Les Roches 2022
    Lucien Lardy Fleurie Les Roches 2022

    The 2022 Fleurie Les Roches has more mineralité and complexity than the Les Moriers on the nose, with fine lift and perfume. The palate is medium-bodied with finely knit tannins, well-judged acidity and a silky, seductive finish. Quite delicious. NEAL MARTIN

    Very fresh Fleurie showing raspberries, fresh blueberries, thyme and oranges on the nose. It's medium-bodied and bright, with crushed stone minerality at the end. JAMES SUCKLING

    2022
    Gamay
    France
    352
    Special Price $37.00 Regular Price $45.00
  10. Little Reddie Leanganook Riesling 2023
    Little Reddie Leanganook Riesling 2023
    Fully ripe white and yellow peach with fresh apricot and wet stone, the flavour intensity is invigorating. Ripeness is refreshed with bitter lemon, lemon pith and red apple skin. There's a welcoming mouth-coating viscosity that gets cleaned up by a chalky phenolic finish. A delightfully generous, thirst-quenching flavour bomb of a wine. KAYLEEN REYNOLDS
    2023
    Riesling
    Australia
    500
  11. Forest Hill Block 2 Riesling 2024
    Forest Hill Block 2 Riesling 2024

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2023
    Riesling
    Australia
  12. Schmolzer & Brown Pret A Blanc 2024
    Schmolzer & Brown Pret A Blanc 2024

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2023
    Pinot Gris, Riesling, Sylvaner
    Australia
    414
  13. Mulline Sutherlands Creek Riesling 2023
    Mulline Sutherlands Creek Riesling 2023

    Picked, pressed and fermented cold at 10 degrees and aged on lees for three months; 10g/RS. A very bright green gold. An engaging bouquet of fresh lime juice, orange rind, makrut lime leaf and some spice. Gently textured with the RS judged to perfection, in that it's there, but you barely notice it. The perfect Sunday lunch 'yum cha' wine. (95) PHILIP RICH, Halliday Wine Companion

    Fermented over the course of three weeks – for a riesling – in a 10 degree room and then left to ferment (or to stop fermenting, naturally) over the course of another week, in a 1 degree room. Finished wine has 10 grams/litre residual.

    There’s decent intensity the the fruit flavour here but it’s mostly defined by its soft, fluid nature, and by the savoury-like notes about the edges. Yes there’s some fruit sweetness here too and it plays its role but it’s a long way from being a dominant factor, other than of course than contributing to the wine’s softness. It tastes of apples mostly, and citrus, and steel, and something almost earthen. It’s an excellent drink, inviting and complex at once. CAMPBELL MATTINSON, The Wine Front

    2023
    Riesling
    Australia
    354
  14. Tapanappa Riesling 2024
    Tapanappa Riesling 2024

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2024
    Riesling
    Australia
    387
  15. Torre de Ona San Martin Rioja Crianza 2020
    Torre de Ona San Martin Rioja Crianza 2020
    The young and fruit-driven 2020 Finca San Martín is pure Tempranillo fermented in stainless steel and matured in new American (60%) and French (40%) oak barrels for 16 months. It's creamy and spicy, with ripe berry fruit, clean and modern, approachable and powerful with 14.5% alcohol, but it also has good freshness and acidity. 180,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2022. LUIS GUTIERREZ, The Wine Advocate

    The 2020 Crianza Finca San Martín is 100% Tempranillo, sourced from Laguardia, Rioja Alavesa and aged 60% in new French oak and 40% in used barrels. Exhibiting a garnet color, the aromas showcase vanilla, cedar, sour cherry and cassis, complemented by an herbal layer. Indulgent, rich and fairly structured, the fine tannins contribute to a corset-like mouthfeel. JOAQUIN HIDALGO, Vinous
    2020
    tempranillo
    Spain
    472
  16. Stephane Aviron Beaujolais Cote de Brouilly 2021
    Stephane Aviron Beaujolais Cote de Brouilly 2021
    Depth and layered complexity are this wine's calling card. The wine has a nose of dried cranberry, Darjeeling tea, white peach, strawberry and red cherry. On the palate, the Côte de Brouilly has a core of just-ripened fruit and velvety tannin. Give the wine 30 minutes to open in your glass if you're drinking now. The bottle will continue to improve with age.  REGGIE SOLOMON
    2021
    Gamay
    France
    352
  17. Trimbach Reserve Riesling 2020 375ml
    Trimbach Reserve Riesling 2020 375ml
    Super-ripe lemon, fresh pineapple and herb aromas pour from the glass of this medium-bodied, concentrated and sophisticated dry riesling. Completely dry, with excellent balance at the long, very clean finish. 100% estate fruit from Ribeauvillé and Bergheim. Drink or hold. (94) JAMES SUCKLING
    2020
    Riesling
    France
    343
  18. Mount Majura Riesling 2024
    Mount Majura Riesling 2024
    Gently nutty smoky overtones to a citrusy aroma, hints of tealeaf, nettle, passionfruit and oyster brine too. The wine is delicate and refined, light bodied and fresh, with understatement and subtlety. A fine and delicate young riesling which has underlying complexity and seems to promise even more in future. A wine of true finesse. (95) HUON HOOKE, The Real Review
    2023
    Riesling
    Australia
    365
  19. Torch Bearer Riesling 2023
    Torch Bearer Riesling 2023

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2023
    Riesling
    Australia
    490
  20. Domaine Chermette Beaujolais Les Griottes 2023
    Domaine Chermette Beaujolais Les Griottes 2023

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2023
    Gamay
    France
    352
  21. Karim Vionnet 'Cuvee KV' Beaujolais Villages 2021
    Karim Vionnet 'Cuvee KV' Beaujolais Villages 2021

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2021
    Gamay
    France
    352
    Special Price $39.20 Regular Price $49.00
  22. Brave New Wine Doppelgänger Riesling 2021
    Brave New Wine Doppelgänger Riesling 2021

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2021
    Riesling
    Australia
    400
  23. Stephane Aviron Beaujolais Fleurie 2022
    Stephane Aviron Beaujolais Fleurie 2022
    From old vines located on the steep slopes of the highly regarded La Madone vineyard. An outstanding Fleurie that captures the beauty and elegance of the appellation and pairs it with some real depth and dimension. The floral lift amidst the black fruits gives this away as Fleurie, but on the palate the flavours expand further to reveal sage, black tea and turned earth. There's a lovely saline tail to the wine too and its plush, ripe fruit reigned in beautifully by a press of graphite- like tannins. ALEX DOBSON, PWS
    2022
    Gamay
    France
    352
  24. Granite Hills '1971' Block  Riesling 2024
    Granite Hills '1971' Block Riesling 2024
    A small bottling of Riesling made from grapes from the very first block planted at Granite Hills estate vineyard in 1971. This wine is widely recognised as one of Australia's finest cool climate Rieslings. Crafted mainly from free-run juice, this wine bursts with generous finger lime and mineral aromas, leading to a textured palate that finishes with a lingering, crisp acidity.
    2024
    Riesling
    Australia
    426
  25. Tentenublo Xerico Vinaspre Rioja 2017
    Tentenublo Xerico Vinaspre Rioja 2017

    The 2016 Xerico that we are offering today is an ode to the wines that Roberto's ancestors drank - Rioja without oak maturation. In place of the oak is cement and chestnut foudre's. The other connection with the past is that the wine contains 15% of the white grape Viura whilst the balance is Tempranillo.

    Xerico is the name of the soil 'Xeric Torriothent'! This is a carlcareous marl soil from the Tertiary era on eroded slopes.

    This wine is from three plots - El Pedrón, La Entrada and La Fuente Colas. The age of the vines range from 15 to 50 years old.

    Fermentation is completed with natural yeasts in stainless steel and cement vats to retain freshness and minerality. As I mentioned above this wine doesn't see any oak and is aged for five months in cement vats and chestnut foudres.

    Don't think of this as Joven style - it is much more serious. 

    2017
    Grenache, tempranillo
    Spain
    472
  26. Telmo Rodriguez Dehesa Gago 2022
    Telmo Rodriguez Dehesa Gago 2022

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2022
    tempranillo
    Spain
    492
  27. Reed White Heart Riesling 2023
    Reed White Heart Riesling 2023

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2023
    Riesling
    Australia
    500
  28. Paul Blanck Pinot Gris 2021
    Paul Blanck Pinot Gris 2021

    This wine sits in a range the Blancks call "Les Classiques". These are easy, accessible wines made from the traditional Alsatian grape varieties. They are fruit-driven, aromatic, dry wines that give the best of themselves within the first five to seven years, if you wish to retain their primary fruit-driven personality. The screw cap closure enhances this profile and helps the wines keep both freshness and liveliness far longer. They generally come from light soils with sand and gravel as well as sandstone or clay.

    Fruit for the Blanck Pinot Gris was sourced from gravel, sand and south-facing clay and limestone vineyards. It was gently whole-bunch pressed before spontaneous alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel.
    2021
    Pinot Gris, Riesling
    France
    343
  29. Shaw & Smith Riesling 2024
    Shaw & Smith Riesling 2024
    The slip of sweetness, the burst of fruit, the citrussy cut of the finish. This is both impressive and delicious, though you get the feeling that it would be a searing number if a little residual sugar had been put to good/positive effect. It tastes mainly of lime, apple juice and apple core and while it explodes upfront it really kicks with acid-driven flavour through the finish. Wait until (this) summer before popping a bottle, at the earliest. (93) CAMPBELL MATTINSON, The Wine Front
    2024
    Riesling
    Australia
    340
  30. Pressing Matters R139 Riesling 2023 375ml
    Pressing Matters R139 Riesling 2023 375ml

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2022
    Riesling
    Australia
    490
  31. Artuke Pies Negros Rioja 2022
    Artuke Pies Negros Rioja 2022
    An excellent red with lots of cherries, plums, grilled herbs, peppery spices and touches of chalk and graphite. The slightly rustic tannins offer gravity and the energy and bright acidity make you want to drink more than one glass. Tempranillo and graciano. ZEKUN SHUAI, James Suckling

    The 2022 Pies Negros is a blend of 90% Tempranillo and 10% Graciano from Ábalos in the Rioja Alta. Aged for up to 12 months in barrels and foudres, this purple wine displays elder and sour cherry notes with hints of violet and rose. Dry and chalky, the juicy, infusion-like palate unleashes its energy with a faintly grippy touch—a long-lasting, primary Rioja red. JOAQUIN HIDALGO, Vinous

    2022
    Grenache, tempranillo
    Spain
    472
  32. Sinapius Clem Blanc 2023
    Sinapius Clem Blanc 2023

    Estate grown field blend of Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, Gewürztraminer, Chardonnay Musqué, Riesling and Grüner Veltliner. Up to 7 days of skin contact before pressing. Natural co-ferment and maturation in a Pozvek foudré for 9 months on full lees. 100% malolactic fermentation. Bottled in January 2024 unfined and unfiltered.

    Amber hue in the glass, this wine is complex and highly aromatic with scents of fresh apricot, musk and lychee. Peach, beeswax and subtle smoky notes. A creamy mid palate with a refreshing saline finish.

    2023
    Blend, Gewurztraminer, Gruner Veltliner, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Riesling
    Australia
    490
  33. Crawford River Strata Riesling 2024
    Crawford River Strata Riesling 2024

    From a block planted in '00/'01 on loam-dominant soils. A very bright green gold. Aromatic with classic citrus fruits together with some white peach, ripe pear, orange blossom and jasmine. Mouth-wateringly juicy and delicious with an underlying, fine vein of acidity. It's super now and will continue to be so for quite some time. Yum. (95) PHILIP RICH, Halliday Wine Companion

    From plantings in the early noughties and a distinct block that sings from a somewhat different hymn book, is the idea.

    Flavourtown starring riesling! This has width and depth, a sumptuousness yet the tickle of brine and crushed granite minerality feels stippled through the wine. The mainstays are cumquat, green apple, a touch of blackcurrant, even some laid back tropical fruit notes and a squeeze of mandarin. It has that kind of open weave deliciousness and gulpability that urges drinking. Great to see this somewhat jazzy and looser knit riesling from this great producer. All in. MIKE BENNIE, The Wine Front

    2023
    Riesling
    Australia
    406
  34. Richter Estate Riesling 2021
    Richter Estate Riesling 2021
    The 2021 Richter Estate Riesling (or Riesling Feinherb in some markets) offers a clear and aromatic bouquet of ripe and savory Riesling fruit intertwined with coolish flinty notes. Round and juicy on the palate, this is a savory and salty, very charming and mouth-filling Riesling with stimulating grip and the concentration of partly very old vines cultivated in the cooler side valleys that give more acidity than the vineyards in the main Mosel Valley. This is a convincing, textured and very quaffable Riesling with a stimulating saline finish. 10.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in July 2022. STEPHAN REINHARDT, The Wine Advocate
    2021
    Riesling
    Germany
    442
  35. Massimo 2022
    Massimo 2022

    Comprising of almost all Mencía with just a dash of Tempranillo and Sousón, this expressive, light bodied wine captures the very essence of Ribeira Sacra, grown on slopes above the River Sil so vertiginous they can only be worked by hand. Flavours of blueberries, blackcurrants, and herbs with fresh, lifted acidity. BARRICA WINES

    2022
    mencia, tempranillo
    Spain
    471
  36. Schloss Gobelsburg Urgestein Riesling 2023
    Schloss Gobelsburg Urgestein Riesling 2023

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2023
    Riesling
    Austria
    501
  37. Hiedler Grüner Veltliner Tonmineral Langenloiser 2023
    Hiedler Grüner Veltliner Tonmineral Langenloiser 2023

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2023
    Riesling
    Austria
    413
  38. Stargazer Riesling 2024
    Stargazer Riesling 2024

    More product information will be added here soon! In the meantime, if you do have any questions at all about this product or others in our store, you can contact us by phone or email. Our friendly and experienced team are always happy to assist - we love drinking, selling, talking about and being in and around wine!

    2023
    Riesling
    Australia
    379
  39. Super Felsa Spranger Riesling 2020
    Super Felsa Spranger Riesling 2020

    Preserved lemon flavours are held in check by the limestone minerality and the palate is given volume and texture by the usual lees contact over winter. A lovely mouthful of wine that finishes long and dry and beautifully balanced. Unmistakably fine Alsace Riesling. VINTAGE & VINE

    2020
    Riesling
    France
    343
  40. Jean Marc Burgaud Les Vignes de Lantignie 2021
    Jean Marc Burgaud Les Vignes de Lantignie 2021
    Now labeled as the 2021 Beaujolais-Lantignié rather than as Beaujolais-Villages, with a view to further foreground its Lantignié origins, this cuvée is once again a notable success. Offering up aromas of smoky berries, spices and petals, it's medium-bodied, supple and seamless, with lively acids and a charming, giving profile. WILLIAM KELLEY, Wine Advocate
    2021
    Gamay
    France
    358
  41. Staffelter Hof Magnus Riesling 2022
    Staffelter Hof Magnus Riesling 2022
    Most likely one of the oldest wineries in the world, Staffelter Hof dates far back to AD 862, when King Lothar II great-grandson of Carl the Great donated the winery to the monastery of Stavelot (hence the name “Staffelter”). A mineral and mouth-watering white wine, with pear and pineapple aromas, made from the grape variety Riesling.
    2022
    Riesling
    Germany
    442
  42. Palacios Remondo La Montesa 2020 375ml
    Palacios Remondo La Montesa 2020 375ml
    Medium ruby hue, with a bright and racy nose that’s full of pretty berries, redcurrants, fresh strawberries and potpourri. Medium-bodied and naturally juicy on the palate, showing lots of crunch and drinkability. Fresh, transparent and silky. Drink or hold. JAMES SUCKLING

    2020 is a powerful vintage; it's structured and textured, the oak is very nicely integrated (12 months in barrel, but the powerful wine absorbed it completely), and it's powerful with 14% alcohol and a pH of 3.55, a little darker than in previous years. The tannins are very fine with a subtle chalky texture. There were 2,319 barrels that resulted in 672,000 bottles, 10,000 magnums and some larger and smaller formats. It was bottled from April 2022. LUIS GUTIERREZ, The Wine Advocate
    2008
    tempranillo
    Spain
    472
  43. Paul Blanck Riesling 2023
    Paul Blanck Riesling 2023
    The fruit comes from vineyards with sand and gravel soils around the village of Kientzheim.
    The juice is extracted with infinite care in an air-bag press. The slow, gentle pressing avoids crushing the stalks and pips. The must starts fermenting of its own accord thanks to the natural yeast present in the juice, and the fermentation generally lasts from four to 10 weeks. It is carried out in stainless-steel vats equipped with temperature control, a medium which maximises the expression of this variety's aromas.
    2023
    Riesling
    France
    343
  44. Schmolzer and Brown Obstgarten Selection Riesling 2024
    Schmolzer and Brown Obstgarten Selection Riesling 2024
    Light straw appearance. The nose is all fresh candied mandarine segments, meyer lemon, orange blossom and perhaps some roseyness and a citrus leaf cut. In the mouth the wine rolls reasonably sweetly, somewhat peach kernelly with more orange/ mandarine and lime hits. A massive juicy acid, cottees concentration. Some peach kernel and hints of vanilla to length.
    2023
    Riesling
    Australia
    353
    Special Price $44.00 Regular Price $52.00
  45. Clarito Garnacha-Viura Clarete 2022
    Clarito Garnacha-Viura Clarete 2022

    Claríto is a tribute to the deep traditions of Rioja, updated perhaps. ‘Back in the day’ such wines were the epitome of a Village Rioja. In little towns, a small amount of Viura would trickle in, but it would take days to fill a press, so it was ‘little-by-little’ adding whatever correctly-picked fruit came in until a batch was ready, first white then later some red.

    In 2022, the Viura was picked (September 14th), de-stemmed and macerated for 3 days or so until the red was ready to pick. This was added as 100% whole bunch Garnacha atop the white. After a couple of days co-maceration, it was gently pressed to a yield of just 65%. The young Clarete must was then left to ferment spontaneously in combination of a 3,200L raw concrete vat and a 2,000L stainless tank. Working with lots of skins, the fermentation started easily and was done in 8 days. The young wine and its fine lees were then aged in gorgeous raw concrete cubes for 8 months (a portion aged in a single old 1,000 litre foudre), stirred occasionally to protect from reduction During this time, natural malolactic conversion happens to create balance and palate structure. No sulphur additions are made to the wine.

    Label artwork by Leah Teschendorff.

    The subtle orange look of Claríto ‘22 is matched on the nose with a line of tangerine skin. This fragrance plays beautifully around an air of ‘dust in a Rioja vineyard’, along with faded roses. Dried silage (including a hint of pickle) and sea shell smells tell of Viura grown in chalk. The nose is deep, bell-clear, like smelling the water in a well, many feet down, below the dust, the heat, the haze. Cool and still. The throat develops a deep compulsive tickle of desire to swallow. One is drawn in. In the mouth, there’s savoury roundness backlit citric with orange and golden persimmon, crabapples, brushed steel earthiness, faded florals. Steel magnolias and cherry skins in short. It’s edged by deep chalky minerality and run through with tangible energy … a circle with a line through it. Plenty of skinsy-tannin mouthfeel gives ungrippy grip, presence without tension.

    2022
    tempranillo
    Spain
    472
  46. Schmolzer and Brown Thorley Obstgarten T Riesling 2024
    Schmolzer and Brown Thorley Obstgarten T Riesling 2024

    Apple blossom, pastry dough, fresh lemonade, lemon sherbet and subtle macadamia are sliced up by a slatey mineral cut. Very hightoned and pretty with pops of sweetness adding appeal. Air and temperature unlocks bath salts, savoury lemon thyme, and a whisper of mandarin pith. The palate is quite coiled and tensile, with a tight frame of pithy acid and chalky phenolics constricting around lemon juice, lemon pith, slatey minerals again, crushed green apple. If there's residual sugar here, it's completely guillotined by the acid which keeps excellent line and freshness through a long finish. Tightly wound, vibrant, bright, structured. Very good. This will do well with five to ten years in cellar. TOM KLINE Wine Pilot

    The 2022 Thorley Riesling is laden with straw and tatami, lemongrass, wet wool and scratched citrus. In the mouth, the wine is viscose and wide, textural and engaging. Instead of the usual linear fruit profile, this is populated by yellow fruits of some opulence, exotic spices and plenty of interest. Recommended. ERIN LARKIN, The Wine Advocate.

    2022
    Riesling
    Australia
    353
  47. Jasper Hill Georgias Paddock Riesling 2024
    Jasper Hill Georgias Paddock Riesling 2024
    Brilliant yellow colour with the usual aromatic citrus notes.  Occasional lees stirring during fermentation gives a weighted riesling with a long finish.  Think lemon in all its form, juice, zest and pith.  Underlining limes and slight peachy fruit characters, finishing with a hint of viscosity.  A wine to drink now but the natural zingy acidity gives this wine long lasting potential. JASPER HILL
    2024
    Riesling
    Australia
    404
per page