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[SOLD-OUT] Grosset Alea Off Dry Riesling 2016

Wine Front 94+ Points!

Wine Front 94+ points!
The 2015 release raised the bar for Grosset Alea Riesling and this 2016 matches it, at the very least. It’s stellar. It brings orange blossom to the table of lime and lemon, and builds a bolt of intense flavour to both the mid palate and to the finish. It’s a ‘you won’t be disappointed’ wine.
Campbell Mattinson, Wine Front, Seot 2016


“Harvested from an estate-owned vineyard dedicated to this distinctive style, this wine is a wonderfully different expression of the variety.

The Alea comes from a narrow corridor of hard red rock with poor, orangey, red loam topsoil in the Grosset Rockwood Vineyard at Watervale. As the early fruit from the vineyard reminded Jeff of the great German rieslings, he decided to take a very different approach to the creation of Alea. The aim was to make a wine generous, succulent and long.

With its first vintage in 2012, ‘Alea’ is the most recent of the Grosset rieslings, the result of three years of painstaking experimentation.

The Grosset Alea 2016 has bright voluminous aromas of white flowers and kaffir lime and a generous, almost fleshy mid-palate with potent lemongrass and lime flavours. Almost dry, the palate is succulent and long with a tight fine structure and exhuberant sweeping acidity on a clean dry finish.

This may be the Grosset white for a range of Asian dishes, or as an aperitif.”

Grosset


Farming   Organic   Vegan-friendly   Sustainably-made  


Country:
Australia
Region:
SA- Clare Valley
Variety:
Wine White - Riesling
Size:
750mL

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$35.00

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