2023 Regional Reisling

Ravensworth 2023 Regional Riesling
Collection: Regional
Vintage: 2023
GI: Canberra, Hilltops
Vineyard source: Long Rail Gully, Barton Estate & Moppity park.
Harvest date: 12th April
Processing: A little skin contact for 8 hours, pressed to vessel
Élevage: 8 months
Vessels: Nico velo Tulips
Vintage conditions: A late bud burst with ample (to say the least) spring rain that dried up at flowering in mid to late December. Some good summer rains that thankfully fried out for harvest.
Bottling date: August - December 2023
Production: 900 dozen
Cellaring: 10+ years
Something interesting: Riesling is a mid-season ripener, comes in just before Shiraz.
Drink with: Seafood - particularly scallops and other molluscs - conversely, roast pork

Ravensworth 2023 Regional Riesling "Fruit sourced from the Canberra District including estate-grown and the Hilltops region. Then, as is the Bryan Martin way, there’s some skin contact to bolster texture and fine phenolics before it all settles in vessels of concrete, ceramic and seasoned foudre. This is something else and delicious. Heady aromatics wafts of lemon blossom, ginger flower and spices, yet the palate steals the show. Textural, waxy, stony and complex with a silk-line of acidity all the way through. A cracking drink on its own or with food" 96 Points
Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion.

Ravensworth 2022 Regional Riesling
"Stunning riesling, one with an alpine blast of citrusy, briny acidity, green apple freshness and gentle, nutty savouriness. Complex, beautiful, somewhat gentle, let’s say cleverly subtle, but with so much succulence and immediate charm. It feels world class from first sip, side-stepping rank and file versions that typify expectations of riesling in Australia, deeply character-filled and ultimately, delicious. Think Keller, Clemensbusch and Lauer. Or the best examples of La Violetta, Crawford River and Frankland Estate, perhaps. Anyway, it is individual, textural, glorious in its mix of fruit, savoury, spice, vitality, minerality" 96 Points
Mike Bennie, The WineFront