2023 Ravensworth Regional Riesling

Highly RatedHALLIDAY TOP 100
Another delicious release of one of Australia's best value Rieslings.
4.3
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
8 Reviews

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96 points & Top 100 Wines of 2024
"This is something else and delicious. Heady aromatics wafts of lemon blossom, ginger flower and spices, yet the palate steals the show. Textural, waxy, stony and complex with a silk-line of acidity all the way through. A cracking drink on its own or with food."
- Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

Those that have ever tasted the exquisite wines from the Clonakilla stable should know that most of them have been touched by the hands of Ravensworth owner/winemaker/butcher/purveyor of smoked meats, Bryan Martin.

The Ravensworth project is a chance for him to captain his own ship. The wines are some of the best value in the country.

This is a scintillating expression of Riesling. Nothing fancy (apart from a small component made in ceramic egg). Just amazing fruit made with a gentle and precise touch. This sits right alongside the best Rieslings in the Canberra region.

The demand for Bryan's wines escalates every year, and with great-value wines like this coming from him so consistently, it's no wonder.

"A cracker of a year sees our favourite regional white filled with beautiful aromatics of citrus, blossom and spice. Nothing appeases a spring thirst like a dewy, chilled glass of riesling on the patio."
- Bryan Martin

A cracker of a year sees our favourite regional white filled with beautiful aromatics of citrus, blossom and spice.

Super fragrant, lovely fine texture, and absolutely bone dry. Like our entire change there no adjusting this wine with fining and filtration. Just grapes, their biome and time.

Nothing appeases a spring thirst like a dewy, chilled glass of riesling on the patio.

VINTAGE 2023

VARIETY Riesling 100%

VINEYARD Long Rail gully, Ravensworth estate Barton Estate in Murrumbateman, Moppity in Hilltops

SOIL Varied but mostly the regional duplex, decomposed granite, red loamy clay

SLOPE Varied

VINTAGE NOTES Great year for riesling, small crops, cool conditions throughout, a little wet early but dry through a late harvest. .

WINE MAKING NOTES A more natural approach, some skin contact, pressed to concrete, ceramic and seasoned foudre. Warmer ferments full of grape solids to create a fuller flavoured wine, a nice wash of texture but still that beautiful spicy reisling flavours and textures

ANALYSIS pH3, TA 7.4g/l, RS <0.3g/l, FSO2 20ppm.

BOTTLED August 2023

96 Points & Top 100 Wines of 2024 - "Fruit sourced from the Canberra District including estate-grown and the Hilltops region. Then, as is the Bryan Martin way, there’s some skin contact to bolster texture and fine phenolics before it all settles in vessels of concrete, ceramic and seasoned foudre. This is something else and delicious. Heady aromatics wafts of lemon blossom, ginger flower and spices, yet the palate steals the show. Textural, waxy, stony and complex with a silk-line of acidity all the way through. A cracking drink on its own or with food." - Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)

Customer Reviews

4.3
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
Based on 8 reviews
Total 5 star reviews: 4 Total 4 star reviews: 3 Total 3 star reviews: 0 Total 2 star reviews: 1 Total 1 star reviews: 0
8 reviews
  • TL
    Thuy L.
    Verified Buyer
    6 months ago
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    A gentle yet layered Riesling

    I personally don't like Riesling that is too clean/too acidic. This one really works with my palette - gently and beautifully reveals the layers of goodness. Delicious.

  • MG
    Malcolm G.
    Verified Buyer
    Wine Knowledge Level Enthusiast
    8 months ago
    Wine Knowledge Level Enthusiast
    Rated 4 out of 5 stars
    Regional Riesling.

    An all rounder ready to go!

    Refreshing and food savey.

    4/5 . And I would order again.

  • LK
    Lata K.
    Verified Buyer
    Wine Knowledge Level Enthusiast
    1 year ago
    Wine Knowledge Level Enthusiast
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    Awesome Riesling

    We drank this last weekend at catch up with friends. It was nicely chilled, crisp with the right level of acidity and went perfectly with our pizzas. Our dinner companion, a diehard fiano lover, was very impressed and sounds like he’ll be visiting your site to order some for himself! Will definitely include this again in our next order. Thank you!

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Bryan Martin is one of the most creative and inquisitive winemakers we've ever met. After leaving his position as winemaker alongside Tim Kirk at Canberra regional flagbearer, Clonakilla, Bryan went full steam in on his own label Ravensworth, which has firmly hit cult status amongst collectors.

He and his wife Jocelyn have a beautiful property outside of Murrumbateman which is home to all of their excellent Estate wines and Bryan also searches surrounding vineyards and out to the Hilltops region to compile his excellent value Regional series of wines. Sustainability and an unwavering commitment to quality across the board underpin the entire operation at Ravensworth. Perhaps best known for his benchmark Shiraz Viognier and textural Rieslings, Bryan is also arguably the country's best producer of Sangiovese and is a true master of the dark art of skin-contact whites.

Bryan embodies everything we love about small artisanal Australian producers. He is humble, irreverent, committed to the pursuit of excellence and always looking to explore. Quite simply, if you see a Ravensworth wine anywhere, you should buy it.

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