2023 Grosset, Polish Hill Riesling, Clare Valley, Australia

  • White
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Riesling
Ready - youthful
Erin Larkin
97/100
Max Allen
18/20
Ned Goodwin MW
95/100
Product: 20238125905
2023 Grosset, Polish Hill Riesling, Clare Valley, Australia

Description

This wine is always a joy to taste. The nose is bursting with apple blossom and honeysuckle. The 2023 has an incredibly lean backbone of acidity running through which is well balanced by the weight of fruits on the palate, where crisp apples and pears meet juicy stone fruits and there is a nice texture coming through on the finish along with a touch of bitter citrus pith.

Drink 2023 - 2048 

Amy Johnson, Account Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2023
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Riesling
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Grosset

Tasting note

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Critics reviews

Erin Larkin 97/100
The 2023 Polish Hill Riesling is utterly superb. It has the flesh and body that only the Clare can deliver; it is shaped by coiled acidity, and it ripples through the finish with unfettered fruit power. It's a glorious thing, this wine. It's looking precise, focused and floral through the lens of the 2023 season. 12.9% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.Drink 2023 - 2043Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate (November 2023)
Drink 2023 - 2043
Erin Larkin, RobertParker.com (Nov 2023)
Max Allen 18/20
From Grosset’s eight-hectare vineyard in the Polish Hill subregion of Clare, planted in 1996 on a ‘gently sloping site comprised of silt and shallow shales over a thin crust of clay and gravel, overlaying a bed of blue slate’. Lower-yielding, smaller bunches than the Riesling on Springvale vineyard in Watervale.As is so often the case with this wine, it’s much more restrained, shy and delicately aromatic compared with Grosset’s other single-vineyard Riesling, the Springvale. It’s also more coiled and tighter and focused on the palate, but the precision and the tingling acidity, the sense of future potential, are simply scintillating. Will be fascinating to see how this ages in bottle – very well indeed, I think.Drink 2023 - 2043Max Allen, JancisRobinson.com (August 2023)
Drink 2023 - 2043
Max Allen, JancisRobinson.com (Aug 2023)
Ned Goodwin MW 95/100
Subdued aromas of talc, chalk, orchard fruits, tatami straw, finger lime and fresh lemonade. Dry and tightly furled to a point that verges on severity. There is bountiful extract that pummels the cheeks and stains the palate, suggestive of a bright future despite the unyielding youthfulness now. From biodynamically grown grapes. Drink or hold. Screw cap.Ned Goodwin MW, Senior Editor at James Suckling.com (September 2023)
Drink 2023 - 2043
Ned Goodwin MW, JamesSuckling.com (Sep 2023)

About this wine

Riesling

Riesling's twin peaks are its intense perfume and its piercing crisp acidity which it manages to retain even at high ripeness levels.
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Clare Valley

Clare Valley

If ever there was a list of Australian terroirs, Clare Valley would be near the top. Its location an hour north of Adelaide, its latitude and heat degree days (over the growing season) suggest a very hot clime suited to reds, yet white wines prevail. Taut, lime-sherbet Rieslings with fine minerality and ageing capacity are the region's most famous product, followed by Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Grosset

Jeffrey Grosset, an oenology graduate, gained extensive experience with major Australian wine companies like Lindemans before establishing his winery 21 years ago in Auburn, Clare Valley.
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