Rieslingfreak accolades to celebrate
The Halliday reviews are in, and it’s GOLD all around for Rieslingfreak's 2024 vintage wines. Reviewed by Dave Brookes, the entire range received 95+ points. An incredible achievement for John Hughes and the Rieslingfreak team.
Rieslingfreak is available in VIC, QLD and SA. Contact your Area Manager to explore the range now.
2024 Rieslingfreak No.2 Polish Hill River Riesling
"Polish River-sourced fruit from two picks spaced 10 days apart. Water-white with a flash of green and fruit aromas of freshly squeezed lime juice, makrut lime and lemongrass. Hints of citrus blossom, crushed stone, celery salt, Christmas lily, green-apple sorbet and liminal notes of clover and honeysuckle. Such a sleek, tightly bound package, with a steely focus, porcelain acidity and a pitch-perfect tubular palate shape. It's lovely saline and sapid drinking now, but this will age beautifully." - Dave Brookes
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2024 Rieslingfreak No.3 Clare Valley Riesling
“Such a beautiful, concentrated yet composed wine from John's mum and dad's vineyard at White Hutt, 5.8km north of the Clare township. So perfumed and essential, with crunchy lime, green apple and grapefruit alongside high tones of wildflowers, Christmas lily, jasmine, talc, mineral salts, peach skin and stone. Concentrated yet super-tight on the palate with a tubular core of focused lime and citrus fruits, a beautifully fine structure and a tangy, energetic line with velocity to burn. A superb, pristine wine.” – Dave Brookes
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2024 Rieslingfreak No.4 Eden Valley Riesling
“Sourced from Rieslingfreak growers in the Eden Valley, predominately the High Eden; John recalls there were lots of smaller bunches in the '24 season. Tight and high-toned, as all Eden Valley riesling should be, with Bickford's lime cordial and Tahitian limes at its base. Hints of orange blossom, crushed quartz, lemongrass and stone with a light, balanced sheen of phenolics and a febrile sense of urgency as it careens across the palate, finishing fine and long.” – Dave Brookes
2024 Rieslingfreak No.5 Clare Valley Off Dry Riesling
“I'm a sucker for a good off-dry riesling (here, it's 13g/L RS), and this certainly ticks a lot of boxes for me. The palest of straw and green flashes in the glass with fruit tones of lime, green apple, white peach and crunchy nectarine. Hints of citrus blossom, riverstone, wildflowers, starfruit and apple sorbet. There's a real tension to this wine, a pressure-like interplay between RS and acidity that releases with a long, purely fruited draw on the finish, seeming drier than you'd expect as the acidity tempers that gentle sweetness beautifully. Bravo.” – Dave Brookes
2024 Rieslingfreak No.8 Polish Hill River Schatzkammer Riesling
“An unctuous Polish Hill River-born riesling from the Jaeschke family vineyard that sports 32 g/L of RS in an Aussie Kabinett style. Super pale with a green flash and pure and expressive fruit tones of lime, grapefruit, custard apple, feijoa and pomelo with underlying hints of orange blossom, frangipani, riverstone and some vaguely earthy mycelial undertones. It's an enchantingly pure wine, its finely honed tension making it appear drier than you'd expect, with a fine, minerally cadence, an ache of umami and a drawn-out lime sorbet finish. Superb drinking.” – Dave Brookes
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2024 Rieslingfreak No.10 Zenit Riesling
“What's not to love about a blend of two of Australia's finest riesling regions? This year, 65% Flaxman Valley in the Eden Valley and 35% White Hutt old vines from the Hughes family vineyard in the Clare Valley. A beautifully perfumed and potent-smelling wine with achingly pure characters of freshly squeezed lime, Bickford's cordial, Christmas lily, frangipani, orange blossom, bath talc, crushed stone, grapefruit and green-apple sorbet. Headspinningly pure and sleek along its length, it's a high-tensile ride that is at once nervy yet powerful, everything just purring like a finely-tuned engine. Man, it's a lovely wine.” – Dave Brookes
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2024 Rieslingfreak No.12 Flaxman Valley Riesling
“From the Lienert family vineyard in Flaxman Valley, way up in the cool climes of the High Eden subregion of the Eden Valley. Fruit tones of freshly squeezed lime, grapefruit and lime with underlying citrus blossom, passionfruit flower, makrut lime, crushed quartz and stone. Some nice concentration here, but it's all about focus and tension, the wine tensing initially and releasing with a burst of limey fruit and a nervy mineral energy.” – Dave Brookes
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