Carrick Organic Bannockburn Dry Riesling 2021

June 3, 2023By Yvonne

Carrick Organic Bannockburn Dry Riesling 2021 $28 For this vintage, a squeak of residual sugar (just 2.6g/l) has it still feeling cleansing and crunchy-crisp, yet there’s a touch more fullness and weight in the mouth. Bright apple and lime and green pear, it has vitality and energy and excellent length of flavour. From their Arthur’s … Read More

Domain Road The Water Race Bannockburn Central Otago Dry Riesling 2020

December 2, 2022By Yvonne

Domain Road The Water Race Bannockburn Central Otago Dry Riesling 2020 $27 I’ve said it many times, great dry riesling should have an immediate flinty, limey, green apple impact on the nose and a tidal wave of crunchy, zesty acidity and lemony layers for days. Graeme and Gillian Crosbie are responsible for this bony and … Read More

Butterworth Martinborough Dry Riesling 2021

January 30, 2022By Yvonne

Butterworth Martinborough Dry Riesling 2021 $35 With solid apple intensity and layers of lime in every corner, this is a riesling that heaves with honeysuckle yet roars with beautifully balanced, dry, mineral intensity. Clean, lengthy and perks up the palate brilliantly. Butterworth Estate

PEGASUS BAY BEL CANTO NORTH CANTERBURY DRY RIESLING 2020 $40 

October 13, 2021By Yvonne

PEGASUS BAY BEL CANTO NORTH CANTERBURY DRY RIESLING 2020 $40 Grown on the Glasnevin gravels in the lee of the Teviotdale Range, Pegasus Bay’s riesling vines are 30+ yrs old now and each year they strap in to help the Donaldson family create one of New Zealand’s most age-worthy wines. Named after matriarch Christine Donaldson … Read More

Astrolabe The Farm Marlborough Dry Riesling 2019

September 25, 2021By Yvonne

Astrolabe The Farm Marlborough Dry Riesling 2019 $26 With classic green apple, yellow plum and lime zest characters washing across the nose and palate, it’s an attractive style that has chalky intensity and impressive length of flavour. Grown in their Grovetown vineyard, it’s a riesling with buckets of texture, so make sure you chill it … Read More

Carrick Central Otago Dry Riesling 2019

September 20, 2021By Yvonne

Carrick Central Otago Organic Dry Riesling 2019 $28 From their ‘Arthurs’ vineyard in Bannockburn comes this sophisticated, citrus-saturated yet skeletally dry riesling from scarily talented winemaker Rosie Menzies. Scented with fresh-cut lime, green apples, it absolutely fangs with fennel and citrus flavours and finishes with perfectly prickly, exfoliating acidity on the palate. Its 0.6g/l of … Read More

Domain Road The Water Race Central Otago Dry Riesling 2019

September 14, 2021By Yvonne

Domain Road The Water Race Central Otago Dry Riesling 2019 $25 I’ve been a fan of this wine for a very long time and that’s because it just gets better and better and better with every vintage. I’m sure that vine age has something to do with it, but I’m even more convinced that it’s … Read More

Little Beauty Marlborough Dry Riesling 2019

July 12, 2020By Yvonne

Little Beauty Marlborough Dry Riesling 2019 $25 (UK + Europe only) Made by ex-Cloudy Bay winemaker Eveline Fraser, this is a wine that perfectly encapsulates everything I love about dry riesling. It’s crafted pretty much entirely for the UK and Europe, however, I’ve been incredibly fortunate to get my hand on a bottle to taste. … Read More

Riptide Waitaki Dry Riesling 2018

December 20, 2019By Yvonne

Riptide Waitaki Dry Riesling 2018 $30 If you’re looking for a ‘wham bam thank you maam, fruit-fest of a riesling, then you’ve come to the wrong place here.  Winemaker Renan Theilloux has gone against the grain, creating a style that has beautiful boniness, minerality and succulence while keeping its structure from being whole-cluster fermented in … Read More

Neudorf Moutere Riesling Dry 2017

November 18, 2018By Yvonne

Neudorf Moutere Riesling Dry 2017 ($29) Crafted from a concoction of three different clones harvested in cooler conditions than usual in the Moutere.  It has fullness and funk from its 100% wild ferment, alongside soft lime and bruised apple aromatics, a hint of biscuity, nutty niceness and long, elegant acidity on the finish.  It’s fantastic.