The 2009 Block 1 Riesling is produced from select parcels from the oldest vines – dry-grown, hand-harvested and wild fermented. Lifted aromas of citrus blossom, grapefruit intermingle with aged Riesling characters. Crisp on the palate with excellent minerality and a delicious long refined finish.
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Dessert Wine, Port & Dessert Wine2009 Noble Riesling ‘Godfreys Creek Reserve’, Saint Clair, 375ml
£3500Add to BasketThis 12-year-old example of Saint Clair’s Noble Riesling dessert wine is stunning and a very rare beast indeed. Deliciously complex with a bouquet of soft dried apricots and creamed honey that carries through to the pallet. Lime zest and a hint of beeswax intermingle with the creamed honey and apricots, lingering in the mouth for what seems an eternity. This is topped off with a spicy ginger finish.
Enjoy with soft cheeses, dried fruits, apple or apricot pie with freshly whipped cream or a fresh summer fruit salad.
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2009 The Florita Riesling, Jim Barry
£3900Add to BasketThis legendary dry Riesling from Jim Barry has matured under optimum conditions and displays the complexities that fine Australian Riesling develops over time.
The Florita Story
This story is best told by famous Australian wine writer, Huon Hooke and head of the Barry Family, Peter Barry who below tell the wonderful story of Florita…..
It starts in 1946, just after the war, when Leo Buring bought land at Watervale and planted Pedro ximénez for sherry – the preferred wine of Australians at the time. He named the vineyard Florita, which is Spanish for ‘little flower’ – a reference to the sherry flor (or flower), the film of yeast that covers the dry flor sherry as it matures in its ullaged casks. Public tastes shifted, table wine became fashionable, and in 1962 Buring’s winemaker John Vickery began to remove Pedro and plant riesling. “He started to make riesling (wine), which began to be seen as the future of Australian white wine,” says Barry. Indeed, Vickery and the Leo Buring brand became almost synonymous with riesling. “In 1986 Philip Morris (the tobacco company which owned the Leo Buring brand at the time) had six years supply of riesling in its cellars, and no-one was drinking it – chardonnay was the new fashion. They decided to sell the Florita vineyard.
My brothers and I went to the auction. I was 24. Mum said ‘You’re not allowed to buy it’. She said we already had plenty of vineyards. We told Dad he’d better buy it, and that would let us off the hook.
Southcorp (the precursor of Treasury Wine Group) owned the Florita trademark at the time, and although the Barrys began using the grapes immediately, they couldn’t use the name.
“I had to wait eight years until the registration period was up, but then Southcorp renewed it for another 10 years, so I had to wait 18 years all told, and I registered the name Florita two days after it lapsed.Eighteen years is a long time to wait for a drink.”
