2024 Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown Obstgarten T Riesling

Vignerons Schmölzer & Brown is the partnership of winemaker-viticulturist Tessa Brown and architect Jeremy Schmölzer, crafting wines from high-altitude vineyards in Beechworth and the King Valley. Their estate vineyard, Thorley, sits over 700m ASL and is farmed with organic practices in all but the most challenging years. Working with minimal intervention, they focus on purity, balance, and drinkability. The range includes single-site wines from Thorley, Brunnen, and Obstgarten, as well as their approachable Prêt-à series.

From Whitlands’ second-highest altitude Riesling vineyard (800m), planted in the late 1980s by the Croucher family among orchards and walnut trees. These mature, unirrigated, close-planted vines yield naturally high-acid, late-ripening fruit. Crafted in a German Trocken style, this single-site Riesling is crisp, pure, and aromatic, with the precision, lift, and minerality that only high-altitude viticulture can deliver.
Alc. 12%

Other Reviews....
“Kabinett” ripeness with a portion of skin contact to build texture. King Valley riesling gets serious and it's next level stuff. There's a super fineness of expression, a delicacy, a purity to be explored here. Bristles in grapefruit, lemon fruits and green pear, lifted nicely by white florals and a splash of spice. Dry and crisp with filigree fine acidity. Drink 2025-2034.
94 Points
Jeni Port - Halliday's Australian Wine Companion

This is a dry riesling though there’s plenty of give, or body, to the fruit. In fact in riesling terms it’s big on texture, and with it an associated impression of character. It tastes of lime, orange, slate, tonic water and fennel, with crushed herb and floral characters an important part of the wine’s show, as indeed is a yeasty hay-like note. It feels both clean and dirty, in a good way. It has excellent intensity and length. Drink 2025 - 2031+
94 Points
Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

This is understandably nervy on opening but is quick to settle into a harmonious mix of homemade lemonade, tonic, lime pith, Makrut lime leaf and peach blossom start, followed by subtle nashi pear, green apple, slate, chalk and a glimmer of cinnamon. It’s zesty, lifted, fresh and bright. The palate balances texture and tautness nicely, with 5 grams of residual sugar here sitting in wonderful balance. Lemon rind and green apple sit above hints of white peach and kumquat with a shot of mineral presence through the core and a nice bite of preserved lemon phenolics gripping the sides and drawing length. Classic acidity cleans up and elongates the zesty fruit. The wine’s purity, texture, sugar and structure work together to make a Riesling of balance and interest. Another strong release. 210 dozen bottled.
94 Points
Tom Kline - WinePilot.com