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2016 Kilikanoon Mort's Reserve Watervale Riesling

Clare Valley, South Australia, AUSTRALIA
$46. 99
Bottle
$563.88 Dozen
Minimum 12 bottles
Cellar: 6 - 8 Years (2024-2026)
ABV: 12.5%
Closure: Stelvin

Brilliant very pale straw colour with a distinctive tinge of green around the edges and a watery hue. Intense lemon and lime aromas are overlaid by oily toast like characters with hints of kerosene and wet steel following up the rear. Tightly knit flavours of lemon and lime wrap around an austere steely core with toasty kerosene nuances and flinty mineral characters also evident on the dry razor sharp finish. Terrific intensity with a long wet steel infused aftertaste of lemon, lime, light toast, subtle kerosene and flinty mineral.
Cellar 6-8 years.
Alc. 12.5%

Other Reviews…
Hand-picked, free-run juice cold-settled and cool-fermented with cultured yeast. You can see the selection process giving rise to this wine and, I'm sure, the very small quantities made. It has X-factor, particularly in the unbridled power and complexity of the texture and structure. The concomitant varietal fruit flavours are likewise text book, gold-plating the future of the wine. Drink by 2031.
96 points
James Halliday – Australian Wine Companion