2024 Mount Horrocks Watervale Riesling

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Benchmark Clare Valley Riesling, pure, driven and powerfully refreshing.
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Watervale is one of the marquee Riesling sub-regions of the Clare Valley. It's a region known for its elite fruit purity, particularly in Riesling.

This Riesling from Stephanie Toole at Mount Horrocks typifies this wine style. This organically grown fruit is some of the best the region has to offer and is consistently ranked amongst the top echelon of Australian Riesling.

It's a blistering wine, built as much for longevity as excellent drinking in its youth. Impeccable Clare Valley Riesling at its most pure and refined.

A Riesling purist's dream.

96 Points
"Wow! What a gorgeous wine this is. The 2024 Watervale Riesling leads with lemon sherbet and scratched citrus peel, coiled saline acidity, white flowers, and chalk. It is long, fine, and lingering but also focused, precise, and authoritative. Mount Horrocks is a superb, high-quality producer in Watervale, and amongst those who know, winemaker/owner Stephanie Toole is a beacon for precise, attention-to-detail winemaking. Overlook at your own peril. This is a standout and pure pleasure to drink."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

95 Points
"Mount Horrocks Watervale Riesling 2024 is a banger. It tastes of slate, lime, chalk, and something more floral—pink and white flowers, like marshmallows in bloom. There’s good intensity to this wine, but it’s more about flow, feel, and length. Yes. Absolutely yes."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

95 Points
"The cool 2024 season was particularly spectacular in the Clare Valley, translated impeccably by Stephanie Toole in a riesling of pristine purity, deep concentration, and profound endurance. Pitch-perfect granny smith apple and lime build a palate of considerable presence, traced with natural acidity of heightened cut and tension."
- Tyson Stelzer (October 2024)

94 Points
"Delicate reserved fragrance of powder-puff talcum, pastry/doughy, chalky, floral, and subtly yeasty in its infancy. There’s a definite salty mineral savoriness that lingers long on the finish."
- Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

96 Points - "Wow! What a gorgeous wine this is. The 2024 Watervale Riesling leads with lemon sherbet and scratched citrus peel, coiled saline acidity, white flowers, and chalk. It is long, fine, and lingering but also focused, precise, and authoritative. Mount Horrocks is a superb, high-quality producer in Watervale, and amongst those who know, winemaker/owner Stephanie Toole is a beacon for precise, attention-to-detail winemaking. Overlook at your own peril. This is a standout and pure pleasure to drink." -
Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

95 Points - "Mount Horrocks Watervale Riesling 2024 is a banger. It tastes of slate, lime, chalk, and something more floral—pink and white flowers, like marshmallows in bloom. There’s good intensity to this wine, but it’s more about flow, feel, and length. Yes. Absolutely yes." - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

95 Points - "The cool 2024 season was particularly spectacular in the Clare Valley, translated impeccably by Stephanie Toole in a riesling of pristine purity, deep concentration, and profound endurance. Pitch-perfect granny smith apple and lime build a palate of considerable presence, traced with natural acidity of heightened cut and tension." - Tyson Stelzer

94 Points - "Delicate reserved fragrance of powder-puff talcum, pastry/doughy, chalky, floral, and subtly yeasty in its infancy. There’s a definite salty mineral savoriness that lingers long on the finish." -
Huon Hooke (The Real Review)

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Mount Horrocks’ Watervale Riesling Vineyard is a very high (475 metre) vineyard planted on red loam over limestone, a profile that occurs throughout the sub-region and considered to be ‘classic’ for Watervale riesling.

However that’s where the similarities end. The vineyard is on a gentle slope, facing south. Combined with the high altitude, this makes it a particularly cool spot, ideal for retaining freshness and a crisp palate while allowing generous fruit flavours to develop.

Then there is the biodynamic and organic certification – strictly no chemical input here or in the surrounding land, also owned by Mount Horrocks.

In what is now often considered ‘old fashioned’ all fruit is hand harvested – better for the vines as well as the fruit which is then delivered to the winery in a pristine state.

Tasting Notes
This is 100% pure expression of single site Riesling from an idyllic vintage. Aromatics more lemon than lime with delightful floral spice.

Expressive, concentrated citrus and pear fruits, ginger and honeysuckle with a touch of talc. Delicate yet flavoursome, crunchy, energetic and long on the palate, with crisp acidity providing zest and immense appeal. Big future ahead – easily 15+ years

Price Bracket $31 to $40
Type White
Body Light Bodied
Variety Riesling
Country Australia
Region Clare Valley
Australian State SA
Feature Biodynamic
High Score
Organic
Women in Wine
Reviewed By The Real Review
The Wine Front
The Wine Advocate
Critic Score 96
95
94
Alcohol 12%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
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