2023 Duke's Magpie Hill Riesling
Now firmly established as one of a handful of Australia's greatest rieslings. This is another beautiful wine. It's slightly friendlier than the awesome '22, but lacks nothing in intensity and drive. Fine lift of wet granite, crunchy quartz and fine lemon and spicy pear on the nose. The palate is so complex and intricately woven with passionfruit, guava, green apple skin and light talcy bath salts. Fine with a precise fine acidity extending to a relentless finish.
Critic Scores and Reviews:
96 points, Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate
The 2023 Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling is so, so pretty on the nose, almost achingly so. It offers notes of lime blossom, crushed rocks, jasmine flower, tamarind, saffron, a hint of mustard seed, white pepper, juniper berry, apple cider apples (actually, more specifically, there is an aroma in here reminiscent of the "tang!" in scrumpy cider) and curry leaf—I could go on. In the mouth, the wine is concentrated and intense. The acid would almost hurt were it not for the slew of juicy, saliva-inducing salty characters in there. It is detailed, nuanced and exciting. Juicy.
95 points, The Real Review
Ranked #3 of 30 2023 Riesling from Australia
Intense lemon-verbena, freshly rolled pastry and nettle aromas, the palate light-bodied and very tangy with prominent acidity, the fruit intense and crisp, delicate and refined, with a very long finale.
94 points, Halliday Wine Companion
Acid hounds, line up! This is a brittle and tense riesling of super limey/tart lemony flavour profile, a very compact, rapier-like thrust across the palate and vividly refreshing. Skeletal and bony, it's terrifically taut and precise with excellent flavour extension. Drinking this in its vivid youth delivers a tightly wound expression; cellaring should deliver a more mellow, relaxed wine. For now, strap in, it's goosebumps stuff with its citrus impact, but great for it, too.
Halliday Top 5 Star Winery
Halliday defines top five-stars as "Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity"
19/20, John Jens (JJ)
Wow. A fragrant, lively, fresh mouth full of delicious and exciting flavours – of enormous length. A touch more generosity than previously. This is a crowd pleaser. I believe that our customers will love it.
Producer Tasting Notes:
2023 produced a small crop of fantastic quality with green fruited aromas and a complex, multi-layered palate reminiscent of the famous 2017 vintage.
Now firmly established as one of a handful of Australia's greatest rieslings. This is another beautiful wine. It's slightly friendlier than the awesome '22, but lacks nothing in intensity and drive. Fine lift of wet granite, crunchy quartz and fine lemon and spicy pear on the nose. The palate is so complex and intricately woven with passionfruit, guava, green apple skin and light talcy bath salts. Fine with a precise fine acidity extending to a relentless finish.
Critic Scores and Reviews:
96 points, Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate
The 2023 Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling is so, so pretty on the nose, almost achingly so. It offers notes of lime blossom, crushed rocks, jasmine flower, tamarind, saffron, a hint of mustard seed, white pepper, juniper berry, apple cider apples (actually, more specifically, there is an aroma in here reminiscent of the "tang!" in scrumpy cider) and curry leaf—I could go on. In the mouth, the wine is concentrated and intense. The acid would almost hurt were it not for the slew of juicy, saliva-inducing salty characters in there. It is detailed, nuanced and exciting. Juicy.
95 points, The Real Review
Ranked #3 of 30 2023 Riesling from Australia
Intense lemon-verbena, freshly rolled pastry and nettle aromas, the palate light-bodied and very tangy with prominent acidity, the fruit intense and crisp, delicate and refined, with a very long finale.
94 points, Halliday Wine Companion
Acid hounds, line up! This is a brittle and tense riesling of super limey/tart lemony flavour profile, a very compact, rapier-like thrust across the palate and vividly refreshing. Skeletal and bony, it's terrifically taut and precise with excellent flavour extension. Drinking this in its vivid youth delivers a tightly wound expression; cellaring should deliver a more mellow, relaxed wine. For now, strap in, it's goosebumps stuff with its citrus impact, but great for it, too.
Halliday Top 5 Star Winery
Halliday defines top five-stars as "Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity"
19/20, John Jens (JJ)
Wow. A fragrant, lively, fresh mouth full of delicious and exciting flavours – of enormous length. A touch more generosity than previously. This is a crowd pleaser. I believe that our customers will love it.
Producer Tasting Notes:
2023 produced a small crop of fantastic quality with green fruited aromas and a complex, multi-layered palate reminiscent of the famous 2017 vintage.
Now firmly established as one of a handful of Australia's greatest rieslings. This is another beautiful wine. It's slightly friendlier than the awesome '22, but lacks nothing in intensity and drive. Fine lift of wet granite, crunchy quartz and fine lemon and spicy pear on the nose. The palate is so complex and intricately woven with passionfruit, guava, green apple skin and light talcy bath salts. Fine with a precise fine acidity extending to a relentless finish.
Critic Scores and Reviews:
96 points, Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate
The 2023 Magpie Hill Reserve Riesling is so, so pretty on the nose, almost achingly so. It offers notes of lime blossom, crushed rocks, jasmine flower, tamarind, saffron, a hint of mustard seed, white pepper, juniper berry, apple cider apples (actually, more specifically, there is an aroma in here reminiscent of the "tang!" in scrumpy cider) and curry leaf—I could go on. In the mouth, the wine is concentrated and intense. The acid would almost hurt were it not for the slew of juicy, saliva-inducing salty characters in there. It is detailed, nuanced and exciting. Juicy.
95 points, The Real Review
Ranked #3 of 30 2023 Riesling from Australia
Intense lemon-verbena, freshly rolled pastry and nettle aromas, the palate light-bodied and very tangy with prominent acidity, the fruit intense and crisp, delicate and refined, with a very long finale.
94 points, Halliday Wine Companion
Acid hounds, line up! This is a brittle and tense riesling of super limey/tart lemony flavour profile, a very compact, rapier-like thrust across the palate and vividly refreshing. Skeletal and bony, it's terrifically taut and precise with excellent flavour extension. Drinking this in its vivid youth delivers a tightly wound expression; cellaring should deliver a more mellow, relaxed wine. For now, strap in, it's goosebumps stuff with its citrus impact, but great for it, too.
Halliday Top 5 Star Winery
Halliday defines top five-stars as "Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity"
19/20, John Jens (JJ)
Wow. A fragrant, lively, fresh mouth full of delicious and exciting flavours – of enormous length. A touch more generosity than previously. This is a crowd pleaser. I believe that our customers will love it.
Producer Tasting Notes:
2023 produced a small crop of fantastic quality with green fruited aromas and a complex, multi-layered palate reminiscent of the famous 2017 vintage.
