2022 Duke's Invitational Frankland River Riesling
Critic Scores and Reviews:
95 points, Huon Hooke - The Real Review
Light yellow colour; already accessible and more open than the Magpie Hill Reserve or Chatsfield wines. Lime and fresh-picked herbs, a marginally richer, fuller palate that is already very rewarding to drink.
94 points, Mike Bennie - Halliday Wine Companion
A pure, potent and charismatic riesling of intensity and drive. Loaded with briny minerality and wound tightly with green apple and grapefruit zestiness. Opens with fruit characters married to wet fern, ozone and sea spray notes, the palate likewise apple-meets-grapefruit with flinty mineral elements. Flavours extend long and tightly packed with great concentration of fruit, spice and mineral elements. Overall, feels high quality while positing high drinkability. A winner.
93 points, The Wine Front
93 points, Ray Jordan Wine Pilot
This is sourced from Frankland River and comes from the excellent Powderbark vineyard of Matt Swinney. It has a distinctive minerally slaty character. It’s also got power and intensity with a great palate weight and texture, and is quite spicy. Provides an alternative to the more austere and finer Porongurup wines from the home vineyard.
91+ points, Parker Wine Advocate
The 2022 Riesling Frankland River is a new wine in the Duke's portfolio, and it marks the beginning of a new chapter for the estate, after Duke and Hilde Ranson sold the eponymous property late in 2021. Imbued with the searing acidity that comes so naturally to Frankland River, this is tight, taut and laser focused. 2022 was a great vintage in Western Australia, and the power and effortless drive that so many of the wines display is on show here. If anything, a little more fruit weight would help balance the natural acidity here and give the wine a little more flesh through the mid-palate and finish. It's lovely, though it needs some time.
Halliday Top 5 Star Winery
Halliday defines top five-stars as "Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity"
Producer Tasting Notes:
Sourced from one of the great sites in Frankland, Swinney Vineyard, we are ecstatic to work with this exceptional fruit from old vines planted on deep ironstone clay and gravels. Meticulously farmed, harvested at night, the floral lift and fine acidity characteristic of the Frankland region was beautifully captured in this wine. Light hay, sparkling green edges; aromas of lime, jasmine, honeysuckle, green pineapple; palate of finger lime, Meyer lemon meringue, juicy, ethereal, rain on wet slate finish.
Critic Scores and Reviews:
95 points, Huon Hooke - The Real Review
Light yellow colour; already accessible and more open than the Magpie Hill Reserve or Chatsfield wines. Lime and fresh-picked herbs, a marginally richer, fuller palate that is already very rewarding to drink.
94 points, Mike Bennie - Halliday Wine Companion
A pure, potent and charismatic riesling of intensity and drive. Loaded with briny minerality and wound tightly with green apple and grapefruit zestiness. Opens with fruit characters married to wet fern, ozone and sea spray notes, the palate likewise apple-meets-grapefruit with flinty mineral elements. Flavours extend long and tightly packed with great concentration of fruit, spice and mineral elements. Overall, feels high quality while positing high drinkability. A winner.
93 points, The Wine Front
93 points, Ray Jordan Wine Pilot
This is sourced from Frankland River and comes from the excellent Powderbark vineyard of Matt Swinney. It has a distinctive minerally slaty character. It’s also got power and intensity with a great palate weight and texture, and is quite spicy. Provides an alternative to the more austere and finer Porongurup wines from the home vineyard.
91+ points, Parker Wine Advocate
The 2022 Riesling Frankland River is a new wine in the Duke's portfolio, and it marks the beginning of a new chapter for the estate, after Duke and Hilde Ranson sold the eponymous property late in 2021. Imbued with the searing acidity that comes so naturally to Frankland River, this is tight, taut and laser focused. 2022 was a great vintage in Western Australia, and the power and effortless drive that so many of the wines display is on show here. If anything, a little more fruit weight would help balance the natural acidity here and give the wine a little more flesh through the mid-palate and finish. It's lovely, though it needs some time.
Halliday Top 5 Star Winery
Halliday defines top five-stars as "Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity"
Producer Tasting Notes:
Sourced from one of the great sites in Frankland, Swinney Vineyard, we are ecstatic to work with this exceptional fruit from old vines planted on deep ironstone clay and gravels. Meticulously farmed, harvested at night, the floral lift and fine acidity characteristic of the Frankland region was beautifully captured in this wine. Light hay, sparkling green edges; aromas of lime, jasmine, honeysuckle, green pineapple; palate of finger lime, Meyer lemon meringue, juicy, ethereal, rain on wet slate finish.
Critic Scores and Reviews:
95 points, Huon Hooke - The Real Review
Light yellow colour; already accessible and more open than the Magpie Hill Reserve or Chatsfield wines. Lime and fresh-picked herbs, a marginally richer, fuller palate that is already very rewarding to drink.
94 points, Mike Bennie - Halliday Wine Companion
A pure, potent and charismatic riesling of intensity and drive. Loaded with briny minerality and wound tightly with green apple and grapefruit zestiness. Opens with fruit characters married to wet fern, ozone and sea spray notes, the palate likewise apple-meets-grapefruit with flinty mineral elements. Flavours extend long and tightly packed with great concentration of fruit, spice and mineral elements. Overall, feels high quality while positing high drinkability. A winner.
93 points, The Wine Front
93 points, Ray Jordan Wine Pilot
This is sourced from Frankland River and comes from the excellent Powderbark vineyard of Matt Swinney. It has a distinctive minerally slaty character. It’s also got power and intensity with a great palate weight and texture, and is quite spicy. Provides an alternative to the more austere and finer Porongurup wines from the home vineyard.
91+ points, Parker Wine Advocate
The 2022 Riesling Frankland River is a new wine in the Duke's portfolio, and it marks the beginning of a new chapter for the estate, after Duke and Hilde Ranson sold the eponymous property late in 2021. Imbued with the searing acidity that comes so naturally to Frankland River, this is tight, taut and laser focused. 2022 was a great vintage in Western Australia, and the power and effortless drive that so many of the wines display is on show here. If anything, a little more fruit weight would help balance the natural acidity here and give the wine a little more flesh through the mid-palate and finish. It's lovely, though it needs some time.
Halliday Top 5 Star Winery
Halliday defines top five-stars as "Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity"
Producer Tasting Notes:
Sourced from one of the great sites in Frankland, Swinney Vineyard, we are ecstatic to work with this exceptional fruit from old vines planted on deep ironstone clay and gravels. Meticulously farmed, harvested at night, the floral lift and fine acidity characteristic of the Frankland region was beautifully captured in this wine. Light hay, sparkling green edges; aromas of lime, jasmine, honeysuckle, green pineapple; palate of finger lime, Meyer lemon meringue, juicy, ethereal, rain on wet slate finish.
