Description
Greenhough Apple Valley Riesling, Nelson, South Island, New Zealand, 2023
Grape: 100% Organic Riesling, hand harvested and whole bunch pressed, unoaked, vine age 23-43 years, 25g/L residual sugar
Producer Tasting Note:
Delicate citrus florals combine with fresh, red apples, nectarines and flinty notes. The palate is light yet deliciously juicy and sweetly fruited. This sweetness is underpinned by a lively, intensifying acidity which emerges seamlessly and extends to a long and elegantly refreshing finish.
This Riesling is grown on the home vineyard from vines planted in 1996. Fruit is harvested while sugar levels are low, taking only the cleanest of fruit to promote the purest flavours. Grapes are hand picked, gently whole bunch pressed and settled before being inoculated with a low vigour, aromatic yeast and cool tank-fermented. As sugar and acidity come into balance the wine is rapidly chilled to stop the fermentation. The Apple Valley style typically sits somewhere between 25 and 35 grams of residual sugar with alcohol in the lower range of 9-10.5 percent. Key to the style is a precise balance between retained sweetness and mouth-watering acidity.
Critics' Tasting Notes:
“Pure, ripe, fresh and lifted bouquet with scents of lime and apple, plenty of white flowers and steely mineral core. An off-dry expression with a fresh lick of sweetness as the wine touches the palate. Flavours of apples and limes, flinty mineral core with a gentle spritz-like quality that dances across the palate. Perfectly balanced and well made with a lengthy finish. A lovely aperitif style with perfect drinking from day of purchase through 2035”.
94/100 points, Cameron Douglas MS, 24 April 2024
“It’s alluring and enticing on the nose with mandarin, lemon sorbet, crunchy apple and white floral aromas, followed by a finely focused palate that’s concentrated and linear. Wonderfully enhanced by elegant sweetness and beautifully infused acidity, finishing persistent and delectable. Style : Medium-dry. At its best: Now – 2035”
96/100 points, WINE ORBIT, July 2024
Food match: Thai and Chinese food. Tex Mex with Cilantro, roasted pork and seafood
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Additional Details
- SKU:
- NE24AW23
- Size:
- 75Cl
- Appellation:
- Nelson
- Closure:
- Screw Cap
- Primary Grape/Blend:
- Riesling
- Drink:
- Drinking well now
- Influence of Oak:
- None
- ABV:
- 9.5%
- Vintage:
- 2023
- Vegan or Vegetarian:
- Vegan
- Farming:
- Organic
- Country:
- New Zealand
- Case Deals:
- Available