2023 Cooter & Cooter Watervale Riesling

Brilliant very pale straw colour with greenish tinged edges and a watery hue. Pronounced lemon and lime scents are followed by Granny Smith apple, wet steel and chalky talc notes. Zesty lemon, lime and Granny Smith apple flavours have a crunchy feel across the tense, tightly wound palate. Steely acidity with chalky talc and flinty mineral elements lingering underneath. Excellent concentration finishing dry, long and snappy.
Drink over the next 6-8 years.
Alc. 12%

Other Reviews….
From two small parcels off typical red clay over limestone soils. A classic cool ferment with pressings kept separate, a portion blended back when assembled. The excellent vintage is on show here, with the purity of lime and green apple driving but with no austerity, apple blossom and jasmine perfuming. Fruit intensity and a sense of matter lend texture, yielding a welcome mid-palate flex, while a faint pithiness adds interest to the pristine natural acid line. Drink by 2035.
93 Points
Marcus Ellis – James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion