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Jim Barry The Florita Riesling 2008
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This wine has super steely aromas of dried lime citrus with a floral lift, with complex undertones of wet slate, pink grapefruit, tangerine and lychee.
The palate is a lesson in line and length, with flavours of paw paw, piercing lemon sorbet acidity, frangipani and a fresh, juicy finish.
A magnificent cellar worthy Riesling.
This micro batch super premium Riesling is the fruit of years of patience. We selected individual rows where the terra rossa and loam barely cover the deep limestone below. To guarantee the freshness of these precious grapes, we carefully picked batches to precisely fill our membrane press in the chill of night, and destemmed the
bunches without crushing them. Only the finest 40% of the juice was used in this pristine, intense, beautifully citric Riesling.
The story of Riesling in Australia is as old as the wine industry itself. Aficionados will remember the legendary “dry white hock style” wines from the 1960’s and 1970’s. The greatest Rieslings of that era came from the revered ‘Florita’ vineyard—a seventy five acre block established one mile south of the Watervale township near Clare in the early 1960’s.
Jim Barry’s sons purchased The Florita vineyard in 1986. Leo Buring first registered ‘The Florita’ trademark in 1946, and Mark, Peter and John were forced to wait, somewhat anxiously, until finally procuring it in 2004.
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WBW Rating: 94/100
Closure: Stelvin
Region: Clare Valley SA |
Winemaker: Jim Barry Family
Drink now until: 2016
Alc/Vol: 12 %
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