2016 Grosset Alea Riesling
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Huon Hooke, huonhooke.com
The wine has a beguiling fragrance which emphasises citrus blossoms, intense and focused. The sweetness is so restrained it’s barely off-dry (half-dry would be overstating it) and the palate is beautifully balanced. If tasted on its own, it would probably not be obviously in a different sweetness category. A gorgeous wine which will surely age magnificently. 95 Points.
Wine Specs
Vintage
2016
Varietal
Riesling
Appellation
Clare Valley S.A.
Wine Profile
Vineyard Notes
The Alea comes from a narrow corridor of hard red rock with poor, orangey, red loam topsoil in the Grosset Rockwood Vineyard (ACO certified organic) at Watervale.
Winemaker Notes
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.
Food Pairing Notes
This may be the Grosset white for a range of Asian dishes, or as an aperitif.
Other Notes
Max. 3 bottles per order