2024 Seppelt Drumborg Vineyard Riesling

A tense, sculptured Riesling with the pristine fruit shining through on the long finish.

Brilliant water like core with a faint greenish tinge around the outskirts. Jumping out of the glass are lime zest, lemon and green apple scents which are trailed by hints of orange rind, wet steel and flinty mineral notes. Zippy flavours of lemon, lime and Granny Smith apple are sculptured by laser like acidity that gives the palate a searingly crisp focus. Tightly coiled and possessing a steely like feel, notions of flinty minerals, chalk and wet steel line the back half. Long, tense finish with the pristine fruit shining through.
Drink over the next 8-10 years.
Alc. 11.5%

Other Reviews…..
2024 is officially the 60th anniversary of the planting of Drumborg vineyard. A truly wonderful milestone! A terrific wine, too, opening with focused aromas of lemon sherbet, pink grapefruit, makrut lime and orange blossom. The palate is just as focused and pure fruited, with the wine's 3.6g/L residual sugar perfectly balanced by its mouth-watering acidity. Have this with food now, but make sure you still have a bottle or two a decade, or longer, from now. Drink by 2032.
97 points
Philip Rich – James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion

What a fitting, beautifully aromatic wine to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the planting of the Drumborg vineyard! The decision to plant Riesling in the ultra-cool Drumborg district all those decades ago was truly ahead of its time and has been rewarded year after year with a wine that celebrates the heady, floral aromatics of the variety, while also rewarding substantial cellaring.  Spring flowers, so engaging, with the lifted scent of wildflowers, citrus blossom, apple, lemon, lime and grapefruit zest beckons from the glass.  Against a strong core of lime, lemon and Delicious apple and with just a hint of Asian fruits, the wine lights up in bright, zingy acidity . . . just like sucking on a Mayer lemon with great balance throughout. A fine Riesling by any measure. Drink 2024-2034.
96 points
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