Vickery Watervale Riesling 2023 (1500ml)

Vickery Watervale Riesling 2023 (1500ml)"John Vickery is in the same league as Max Schubert and other great winemakers, most of whom are known for their reds." Jeffrey Grosset John Vickery is the acknowledged old master of Riesling in Australia, with an illustrious career spanning nearly sixty years. In that time, he amassed an extraordinary awards tally of more than fifty Trophies and over four hundred Gold Medals. John came out of retirement to consult when the Vickery brand was

the 2001 is the current benchmark and maybe the 2004 doesn't quite reach it

and it drinks better out of a wine glass than it does from a flute

not filtered or fined

some mustard seed

meaty and complex

the remainder left as whole bunches

planted in 1988

peach and mineral notes

What makes it unusual is the distinct hint of chocolate

but better after 2024

Typical vineyard characters of sage and bay leaf

one at 550m above sea level (70% of the wine) and the other at 400m asl