Always advertised as Grenache and Mourvèdre, but carries a splash of aromatic whites from the Eden Valley: Riesling, Gewürtztraminer and Kerner. The label comes with a temperature sensitive indicator letting […]
Forget the lower case “a&w” this is Castle Rock Estate’s icon Riesling, named in honour of the founders Angelo and Wendy Diletti. Hand harvested from best rows of fruit. Whole […]
A fairly recent addition to the line up of Rieslings from CRE. Rob Diletti gets his family name on the label and gets to have some fun in the winery. […]
RS21 stands for Residual Sugar 21. With 21 grams per litre of residual sugars in the wine. Fermentation stopped early (yeasts, responsible for fermentation eat sugar and produce alcohol). While […]
The mainstay of Castle Rock Estate’s Rieslings since 1986. All estate fruit that is machine picked from a blend of all 6 Riesling blocks. Only free run juice used from […]
Named after a local geological feature. Entry level but no means a lesser wine. Utilising some of the medium pressings from each Riesling block (machine harvest) rather than just free […]
Part of the Hill-Smith Family Estate Vineyards and labels. The Parish range has extended to a number of single vineyards, with this one at Sorell (pronounced Sor-ell, not sorr-awl), around […]
While this one doesn’t always score the highest among the releases ( I may be miserly), it’s the one I most enjoy reviewing for its uniqueness. Probably the only blend […]
Translates as *Triple point referencing the 3 different aspects of the Fechner vineyard (over 60 years old) in Moculta where the fruit is grown. Winemakers Daniel Chaffey Hartwig, Theo Engela […]
From a (in Tassie terms) relatively aged vineyard on the banks of the West Tamar. Young Gun Matthias Utzinger is passionate about Riesling. The fruit is hand-picked, then destemmed and […]
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