2024 Curator Wine Co Eden Valley Riesling - 93 points The Wine Front
Time for a single site Riesling with some meaning!
Still from the same Flaxman's Valley vineyard high up in the hills of Eden Valley, still picked in the middle of the night and delivered to the winery before sunrise. This time we fermented it very differently.
Firstly we left a small portion on skins and oxidatively open fermented it with 2-3 daily skin punch downs to keep the skins nice and wet.
We drained off the free run, let settle over night and then rough racked collecting a lot of "fluffy" solids and fermented long and cool in a stainless steel tank.
Lastly, the pressings cut was drained into seasoned French oak to ferment in barrel to give even more texture and mouthfeel.
Once all these ferments were completely dry, we blended small amounts of them together with the free run with the aim to create a Riesling with interest and a delicious amount of texture (ie present but not overpowering).
No fining was done so the wine is Vegan Friendly.
93 points - The Wine Front - Campbell Mattinson
This Riesling is good for drinking now. It will no doubt age, but it’s a bodied, textural riesling with plenty to offer in its youth. It tastes of citrus, lemonade and tonic water, it has very intensity, and it follows through appreciably on the finish. I like this quite a lot. It makes you want more.
93 points - Wine Pilot Ken Gargett
A single site Riesling, from the Flaxman’s Valley vineyard in the Eden Valley, from a vintage which really is proving to be exciting. A small portion remained on skins and was oxidatively open fermented to increase the textural aspect and complexity. Pressings spent time in older French oak for the same reason.
Yellow straw in colour, there is no doubt that the textural aspect of this wine sets it apart from most of its contemporaries. Finely crafted, it is beautifully fragrant with florals, limes and lemons, spices and a touch of orange rind. Good focus and energy, there is decent length here with a line of fine acidity running the full journey. Exquisitely balanced, it will provide pleasure for at least the next six to eight years and is already doing so.
Time for a single site Riesling with some meaning!
Still from the same Flaxman's Valley vineyard high up in the hills of Eden Valley, still picked in the middle of the night and delivered to the winery before sunrise. This time we fermented it very differently.
Firstly we left a small portion on skins and oxidatively open fermented it with 2-3 daily skin punch downs to keep the skins nice and wet.
We drained off the free run, let settle over night and then rough racked collecting a lot of "fluffy" solids and fermented long and cool in a stainless steel tank.
Lastly, the pressings cut was drained into seasoned French oak to ferment in barrel to give even more texture and mouthfeel.
Once all these ferments were completely dry, we blended small amounts of them together with the free run with the aim to create a Riesling with interest and a delicious amount of texture (ie present but not overpowering).
No fining was done so the wine is Vegan Friendly.
93 points - The Wine Front - Campbell Mattinson
This Riesling is good for drinking now. It will no doubt age, but it’s a bodied, textural riesling with plenty to offer in its youth. It tastes of citrus, lemonade and tonic water, it has very intensity, and it follows through appreciably on the finish. I like this quite a lot. It makes you want more.
93 points - Wine Pilot Ken Gargett
A single site Riesling, from the Flaxman’s Valley vineyard in the Eden Valley, from a vintage which really is proving to be exciting. A small portion remained on skins and was oxidatively open fermented to increase the textural aspect and complexity. Pressings spent time in older French oak for the same reason.
Yellow straw in colour, there is no doubt that the textural aspect of this wine sets it apart from most of its contemporaries. Finely crafted, it is beautifully fragrant with florals, limes and lemons, spices and a touch of orange rind. Good focus and energy, there is decent length here with a line of fine acidity running the full journey. Exquisitely balanced, it will provide pleasure for at least the next six to eight years and is already doing so.
Time for a single site Riesling with some meaning!
Still from the same Flaxman's Valley vineyard high up in the hills of Eden Valley, still picked in the middle of the night and delivered to the winery before sunrise. This time we fermented it very differently.
Firstly we left a small portion on skins and oxidatively open fermented it with 2-3 daily skin punch downs to keep the skins nice and wet.
We drained off the free run, let settle over night and then rough racked collecting a lot of "fluffy" solids and fermented long and cool in a stainless steel tank.
Lastly, the pressings cut was drained into seasoned French oak to ferment in barrel to give even more texture and mouthfeel.
Once all these ferments were completely dry, we blended small amounts of them together with the free run with the aim to create a Riesling with interest and a delicious amount of texture (ie present but not overpowering).
No fining was done so the wine is Vegan Friendly.
93 points - The Wine Front - Campbell Mattinson
This Riesling is good for drinking now. It will no doubt age, but it’s a bodied, textural riesling with plenty to offer in its youth. It tastes of citrus, lemonade and tonic water, it has very intensity, and it follows through appreciably on the finish. I like this quite a lot. It makes you want more.
93 points - Wine Pilot Ken Gargett
A single site Riesling, from the Flaxman’s Valley vineyard in the Eden Valley, from a vintage which really is proving to be exciting. A small portion remained on skins and was oxidatively open fermented to increase the textural aspect and complexity. Pressings spent time in older French oak for the same reason.
Yellow straw in colour, there is no doubt that the textural aspect of this wine sets it apart from most of its contemporaries. Finely crafted, it is beautifully fragrant with florals, limes and lemons, spices and a touch of orange rind. Good focus and energy, there is decent length here with a line of fine acidity running the full journey. Exquisitely balanced, it will provide pleasure for at least the next six to eight years and is already doing so.
