Description
If you're a Riesling lover, this mixed pack is your dream come true. From the legendary 2023 Grosset Polish Hill to the ultra-rare Margret Pooley Riesling from Tasmania, each bottle showcases Australia's finest expressions of this noble grape.
It's a Riesling journey through the lens of six iconic producers — perfect for your cellar or immediate indulgence.
- 2023 Grosset Polish Hill Riesling
- 2017 Crawford River Museum Release Riesling
- 2023 Frankland Estate Isolation Ridge Riesling
- 2023 Helm Premium Riesling
- 2024 Rieslingfreak No. 10 Zenit Pinnacle Riesling
- 2022 Pooley Margaret Pooley Tribute Riesling
2023 Grosset Polish Hill Riesling
The Grosset Polish Hill Riesling is one of the finest in the country. For many years it has been a benchmark wine for the Clare Valley. A definitive yardstick from which to measure the region's Riesling style.
It is characterised by pristine purity, intensity of flavour, and phenomenal longevity. It's a wine that could only come from this famous site and the hands of Jeffrey Grosset, one of Australia's finest winemakers.
The Polish Hill sits at the apex of Australia's greatest Rieslings. If you seek Australia's finest, the Polish Hill is a wine you must have in your cellar.
98 points & 2023 Halliday Top 100 -
"The cool, late vintage and reduced yield come together in a glorious riesling that is so delicious now..."
- James Halliday (Halliday Wine Companion)"Grosset’s Polish Hill is renowned for its reserve, particularly on release, but this rendition has both its quality and its fruit intensity sitting front and centre. It’s a wine of great beauty."
- 96 pts, Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)"An outstanding release of this vaunted wine... One for the ages here."
- 96 pts, Mike Bennie (Halliday Wine Companion)
2017 Crawford River Museum Release Riesling
This is one of those wines that every Riesling lover needs to try.
It comes from the iconic Crawford River winery with Belinda Thomson now crafting some of the finest Rieslings in the land from here family estate
This is the wine they are best known for, and the 42nd release is outstanding as evidenced by it's 96 point score from the Halliday Wine Companion and 95+ from The Wine Front's Mike Bennie. A wine renowned for it's blistering intensity and incredible longevity, this is simply a must try for any Riesling fan!
A benchmark for Australian Riesling, to be sure.
96 Points
"Wow this is good. There's a lot of very good riesling around but the details here are so punchy and so vivid; it just has that extra something. Lime, slate and spice flavours but it's the palate intensity and power through the finish which sets it apart."
- Campbell Mattinson (Halliday Wine Companion)
2023 Frankland Estate Isolation Ridge Riesling
If you're a fan of Australian Riesling, then Frankland Estate's Isolation Ridge release just has to be in your cellar.
This wine really paints the picture of what Hunter Smith and the Frankland Estate team believe Great Southern Riesling should taste like.
These are organically-grown, single vineyard wines of startling purity and intensity. Absolutely top of the Riesling tree in Aus.
The Frankland Estate wines are truly one of the country's premier Rieslings. Try them while you can!
96 points
"One of the great rieslings of Australia. This is textural as much as pure, with lime blossom, ginger flower and a touch of beeswax. Flavours of Bickford's lime cordial, lemon curd, mandarin and zest caress the palate; the talcy-fine acidity is lipsmacking."
- Jane Faulkner (Halliday Wine Companion)97 points
"By any measure – aroma, flavour, structure, length and complexity – this is a stunning Riesling."
- Jeni Port (Wine Pilot)
97 points
"A wine of balletic balance with a
piercing acid line of jaw dropping intensity and drive. A masterclass in coiled tension, restrained power and the beauty of Frankland River riesling."
- Nick Ryan (The Weekend Australian)
97 points
"One of the very best Isolation Ridge rieslings produced... Has a crunchy vibrant minerality on the finish. Exceptional wine."
- Ray Jordan (WinePilot.com)
2023 Helm Premium Riesling
It would be difficult to overstate just how important the "Ken Helm effect" has been on the Canberra wine scene.
As one of the region's pioneering winemakers, much of the current plethora of extraordinary wines being produced in the area can trace their heritage back to this man. We have a lot to thank him for.
This is the top of the Helm Riesling totem pole. His Queen of Queens. The most intense, most luxurious, most earth-shattering example of his pet variety that he can muster - and it's only released if the vintage is just right.
This is one of the country's most elite white wines, something that deserves some time in a cool dark place to really hit its straps. Having said that if you like young, powerhouse Riesling this will reward the patient and impatient alike.
2024 Rieslingfreak No. 10 Zenit Pinnacle Riesling
The Zenit (German for 'Zenith') is a 'super Riesling' of sorts - which combines the best bits of fruit from both the Eden Valley and Clare Valley that John Hughes gets access to each vintage, and puts the quality on show.
There is precious little of this wine available. Dry, tightly wound, immaculately balanced and meant to be a standard bearer for all South Australian Rieslings.
It will live forever in the cellar yet has the fruit depth and flavour intensity to be excellent right now. This is John's finest classic Riesling release each year and is not to be missed, but you better swoop quick.
95 points
"The Number 10 is the ultimate regional blend. The riesling best represents the vintage. This vintage it’s a blend of 65% Flaxman in Eden and 35% old vines from White Hutt, Clare Valley. These vines are around 64 years old. There is plenty of discussion to get this wine just right, agonising over a 1% here and there is not uncommon. So it’s always a wine that deserves some appreciation. Lemon balm, makrut lime leaf, grated ginger and fennel seed. White nectarine crabapple and frangipani blooms. It is equally perfumed and lofty as it is direct in focused palate weight. It’s impossible not to enjoy and will please any white wine drinker on the planet. Drink with crusty bread and ham sliced off the bone."
- Shanteh Wale (Wine Pilot)
2022 Pooley Margaret Pooley Tribute Riesling
The Margaret Pooley Tribute Riesling is a reserve wine made only in exceptional years from the original Pooley Riesling plantings established in 1985.
This is Anna Pooley's most explosive and concentrated Riesling release. Built with cellaring in mind, this is an intensely flavoured, tightly structured wine that is going to reward patience in the cellar.
One of the benchmark Rieslings in Tasmania, whenever Anna deems this high enough quality to be a stand alone release, enthusiasts should jump on it. This Riesling is a cut above.
97 points
"The focus and minerally clarity are something else as are the penetrating citrus flavours and vivid, stony cadence as it sets off across the palate. It's all about tension, resolution and grace. A good cellaring prospect if you have the patience."
- Dave Brookes (Halliday Wine Companion)
96 points
"A very reserved, slow-aging style of riesling that needs more time and will richly reward extended cellaring. The balance is dry; the intent super-serious."
- Huon Hooke (The Real Review)
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