2015 Municipal Whitegate Vineyard Old Block Riesling

Brilliant pale straw colour with greenish tinged edges and a watery hue. Lime and citrus aromas intermix with petroleum like notes followed by wet steel and mineral. There’s good intensity to the lime and citrus flavours which are overlaid by kerosene characters. Some wet steel and flinty mineral nuances are also present. Finishes dry with crisp acidity and an aftertaste of lime, citrus, kerosene and wet steel.
Drink over the next 5-6 years.
Alc. 12.8%

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Matt Froude is behind the label Municipal Wines and has plied his trade in varying wineries over the past decade. This is a fledgling project, with Froude working a single vineyard in the Strathbogie Ranges. He sees an untapped potential there. Clever, I reckon he might be onto something. Anyway, the wines are made with minimal fuss in winery (he is renting one) and his work in vineyard is all by hand and pretty much by him, it seems. This should be a wine producer to watch closely, having tasted the range.
It’s a soft, but brightly flavoured riesling. It’s more in the appley spectrum for riesling, shows a touch of fennel in flavour, and offers a brisk, starburst of grapefruity tang and firm chalkiness to close. The bouquet suggests a touch of cereal-like savouriness, lemon curd. It’s lovely to sniff on. The wine spreads well and fresh in the palate, and there’s chalky mineral character running around, and there’s complexity, with a touch of nuttiness in tow. I kept sipping. And sipping. It’s a complex, delicious, delicate and flavoursome riesling. Off to a flying start, ey?
Drink 2017-2025.
94 points
Mike Bennie – The Wine Front