2023 Polish Hill Clare Valley Riesling
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Full screwcapped bottle 1,280 g, much lighter than the 2022 bottle. From Grosset's famous vineyard that is now certified organic and biodynamic vineyard (see Grosset – a biodynamics sceptic converted ). Late, cool vintage. There used to be a wide variation between Grosset's Springvale and Polish Hill Riesling bottlings but I think it's narrowing. This has some floral elements as well as the lime fruit. Rather beautiful balance already. Both wines have lovely pure acidity and persistence. Complete. And slightly tenser than the 2022. (JR)
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Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate
Jancis Robinson MW
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The 2023 Polish Hill Riesling is utterly superb. It has the flesh and body that only the Clare can deliver; it is shaped by coiled acidity, and it ripples through the finish with unfettered fruit power. It's a glorious thing, this wine. It's looking precise, focused and floral through the lens of the 2023 season. 12.9% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.
From Grosset’s eight-hectare vineyard in the Polish Hill subregion of Clare, planted in 1996 on a ‘gently sloping site comprised of silt and shallow shales over a thin crust of clay and gravel, overlaying a bed of blue slate’. Lower-yielding, smaller bunches than the Riesling on Springvale vineyard in Watervale. As is so often the case with this wine, it’s much more restrained, shy and delicately aromatic compared with Grosset’s other single-vineyard Riesling, the Springvale. It’s also more coiled and tighter and focused on the palate, but the precision and the tingling acidity, the sense of future potential, are simply scintillating. Will be fascinating to see how this ages in bottle – very well indeed, I think. (MA)