Pewsey Vale Vineyard
The Contours Riesling Magnum 2016

Pewsey Vale Vineyard
The Contours Riesling Magnum 2016

Pewsey Vale Vineyard The Contours Riesling is characterised by a special site, sensitive vine growing and astute winemaking.
Item No. PEWCON16153-BT
5 out of 5 Customer Rating
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Pewsey Vale Vineyard The Contours Riesling is characterised by a special site, sensitive vine growing and astute winemaking.

The Details

Tasting Note Pale straw in colour with green hues. Intense classic lemon aromas, with a hint of white flowers. Bottle aged characters of toast, clove oil and lemongrass emerge and combine with the still fresh citrus and white flowers of its youth. The palate has great length and depth with concentrated power and fresh, pristine lime juice overlaid with toasted brioche, sage oil and lime marmalade.
Best Enjoyed With Enjoy with duck breast and five-spice glaze or tofu pad Thai with fresh lime wedges.
Treatment The Contours Riesling is crafted from old vines grown on the coolest slope within this ruggedly beautiful single vineyard. Bottle ageing for five years before release transforms this Riesling into a complex wine. More richness and complexity will develop over future decades.
Vintage 2016
Varietal Riesling
Region Eden Valley
Alcohol by Volume 12.5%
Winemaker Louisa Rose
Cellaring Recommendations This wine will continue to age gracefully for many years to 2036
Pack Size Options 1 , 3

Accolades

Graceful and generous
As is to be expected, it’s rather tightly coiled upon opening with pointy angles of acidity, nashi pear juice and a little sniff of kerosene. Once it’s settled down though (I gave it an hour), the show really begins. Minerals sparkle all over the roof of the mouth like it was the inside of a geode and the textures soften into quite the graceful and generous wine. You can taste honey melted with butter over white toast on the lips and salty oyster shell on the tip of the tongue. Crunchy lemon and lime boiled lollies stain the mid palate, a lick of crushed almonds and spice on the sides and back and up above, there’s a warming retronasal length – lemon tart just starting to bake.
Morgan Dunn

Masterful winemaking
Pale colour. Classic developed lime, toasty aromas and flavours with hints of oilskin and sage. The palate is superbly balanced and in clockwork condition with attractive fruit complexity, underlying minerally notes, fine lacy textures, very good mid-palate viscosity and fine linear fresh acidity. A touch al-dente at the finish. A beautiful example of Eden Valley Riesling showing the fidelity of vineyard site and masterful winemaking. Drink now – 2034
Andrew Caillard MW

The layers of flavor in the wine are spellbinding
This wine is a knock-out. First of all, it’s 8 years old, just now released, and vibrating with freshness (thank Riesling’s racy acidity for that). Second, it’s hauntingly dry, not to mention concentrated and intense. Third, the layers of flavor in the wine are spellbinding. Marmalade on brioche toast comes to mind. So does rain on a window screen. Plus, the wine is woven through with tangy, saline minerallyness. Pewsey Vale’s The Contours Riesling is one of the fantastic and classic white wines of Australia. You cannot not fall in love with it.
Karen McNeil
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