2024 Leo Buring DWB17 Leonay Riesling

Concentrated yet taut and focused with a searingly long finish.

Brilliant water like colour with green tinged edges. Intense lemon and lime aromas infused with wet steel soar out of the glass trailed by some Granny Smith apple, chalky talc and flinty mineral like notes. Concentrated yet taut and focused, scrumptious lime, lemon and green apple fruits are shaped by a laser beam of crisp acidity. Wet steel, chalky talc and mineral elements ensue. Showing exceptional drive it finishes dry and searingly long.
Drink over the next 6-8 years.
Alc. 11%

Other Reviews....
Leo Buring Leonay. The mention of that name is enough to get any riesling lover standing to attention. Named after winemaker and the rather awesomely monikered Leo Buring Hermann Paul Leopold Buring. Anyone that has said "Winemaking isn't a matter of life or death – it's much more important than that!" is OK by me. The wine is a singularity of limey goodness. Bickford's lime cordial, freshly squeezed lime juice and green apple sorbet with hints of Christmas lily, clover blossom, crushed quartz and lemongrass. Precise and focused with a tubular core pushed across the palate by fine, vivid acidity with an umami blush on the exit. If there was a Mount Rushmore for Aussie riesling, old Leo's smiling face would be the first to be chiseled into the granite. Drink by 2040.
98 points
Dave Brookes - James Halliday's Australian Wine Companion