2024 Crawford River Strata Riesling
Description
WINEMAKER: Belinda Thomson
REGION: Henty, VIC
VARIETY: Riesling
VITICULTURE: Organic
“The 2023/4 season provided very even growing conditions, resulting in wines of great purity and definition. It was dream vintage and the best seen at Crawford River in a number of years.” Intense, white florals and powdery, musk perfume. Fresh, white peach. Chalky texture, underpinned by a long line of innate acidity and minerality. Through the line of acidy, there is softness and a supple roundness that makes this wine utterly delicious drinking.
Both crushed and whole bunches were pressed directly to stainless steel tanks for a natural settle of sediment. Following settle, a combination of spontaneous fermentation and commercial yeast were used to ferment in steel tanks. The wine spent around 8 weeks on lees prior to racking and sulphur addition. No fining agent was used. A further period on fine lees of more than a month, occurred prior to blending and filtration. Bottled September 2024.
Crawford River is an iconic family producer in the cool climate of Henty in Victoria's south-west. The Thomson family have been producing wine from their estate since 1985, making the move to organics in 2008. The vineyard is managed by hand without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides or fungicides, using organic composts and grazing sheep.
2024 Crawford River Strata Riesling
$45.00
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