Riesling and Blends Wines from Grosset Wines

As far as Australian Riesling goes there’s one name that stands tall as the supreme wizard of the grape; that man is Jeffrey Grosset. For over 30 vintages he has been crafting pure and pristine examples from single vineyard sites in the Clare Valley. The wine is characterized by its restraint and fruit purity. It’s imbued with lemon and lime aromatics that make it tangy, tight and tantalizing. It’s powerful with quartz like minerality and layer after layer of flavour. It’s impeccably balanced with a satisfying grip on the finish. This is oyster territory.

The remarkable consistency of style continues in spite of the tricky conditions that the 2011 vintage visited on the vineyard. Some will love its youthful tautness, extreme coiled steeliness and pristine varietal character while others may well prefer to wait for it to shrug off its customary restraint, tightness of structure and zingy minerally acidity. Whatever your preference, it’s all there. There’s a restrained savouriness, a hint of lime blossom, intense and ultra-concentrated schisty, sea shell minerally flavours that are pure, long and deep, tight steely structure, and a long taut finish that lingers dry and satisfying. Grosset Awards & Accolades "Unwavering in its focus, the ...

A 98 Pointer! In the Clare Valley it’s all about Riesling and the magician who turn’s out the most fabulous examples is Jeffrey Grosset, who for over 30 vintages has turned out some of Australia’s finest. Polish Hill is a single site wine that really is expressed through the resultant wine. Comfortably balanced between fruit and mineral purity, it’s a restrained drop with hints of wet pebbles and lime. The palate is dry but full of lime fruit purity yet tightly coiled with defined acids. It’s as pure a Riesling as you could hope to find.

In some ways, the 2009 Polish Hill is a surprise packet with quite exuberant, lifted floral aromatics providing a departure from the norm. On the palate, there is a brightness and youthful tang that is rare in young Polish Hill Rieslings. As ever, there is intense, pristine lime juice flavour made more complex by slatey, minerally characters all compressed and coiled by the wine's tightness of structure. There's characteristic finesse, power and a steely quality before the taut natural acidity highlights its lingering, dry finish. While the 2009 Polish Hill should age as well as other vintages, it may provide more joy in its youth. Grosset Wine Reviews and Accolades "Hardly a...

The 2010 Grosset Polish Hill Riesling has restrained aromatics, a hint of lime blossom, some pebbly, wet stone fragrance, powerful mouth-puckeringly dry and pristine lime flavours that are deep, powerful and tightly coiled with savoury, slatey minerality. The finish is pure Grosset: flinty, achingly dry, memorable.

The 2010 Grosset Springvale Riesling has lemon, lime blossom aromatics, intense pure tangy lime juice, is fine and impeccably focused, powerful and tight with mouth-watering zesty quartz minerality on a bone-dry finish that lingers. Layer after layer of flavour washes over the palate followed by an impeccably balanced, satisfying, taut grip. Grosset Wine Reviews and Accolades "…This leads on nose and palate with a seamless and prolonged delivery of mouthwatering lime and grapefruit, perfumed lime blossom and chalk dust, which adds a textural “spine.” As you’d expect from Grosset it’s possessed of crystalline purity and precision, making for a long, controlled, seemingly endless fin...

The Grosset Noble Riesling 2011 is an extreme example of this style, its complex, textural palate showing apricot, nectarine, and white peach yet is pure, precise and detailed with a powerful mineral backbone. It is long and lush with impressive weight and admirable balance as its cleansing natural acidity restrains its delicious sweetness.

The 2011 Grosset Off-dry Riesling has more restrained aromatics than the ‘Springvale’ – just a hint of white flowers, a whisper of lime juice – is softer and plumper than its sibling yet is still tight, fine and mouth-puckering. There’s some slatey minerally savouriness on a tight palate and refreshing, cleansing acidity that leaves a fine hint of lingering sweetness. Almost identical in structure to the last year’s highly successful premier release, this wine is also rated ‘dry’ by International standards. Grosset Wine Reviews and Accolades “An engaging, vivacious nose and palate with talc top notes tickles and re-tickles the taste buds with tangy, super juicy layers of gree...

Now with it's own vineyard name (like the Springvale and Polish Hill), this off-dry Grosset Riesling continues to look more impressive every year, the balance better, the sweetness more integrated. In other words, it's one impressive semi sweet Clare Riesling that just keeps getting better.

As far as Australian Riesling goes there’s one name that stands tall as the supreme wizard of the grape; that man is Jeffrey Grosset. For over 30 vintages he has been crafting pure and pristine examples from single vineyard sites in the Clare Valley. The wine is characterized by its restraint and fruit purity. It’s imbued with lemon and lime aromatics that make it tangy, tight and tantalizing. It’s powerful with quartz like minerality and layer after layer of flavour. It’s impeccably balanced with a satisfying grip on the finish. This is oyster territory.

Light to medium green-yellow; fragrant, flowery lime blossom aromas with some background hints of toast and spice. A wonderfully elegant and fine yet intensely flavoured wine on the palate, balanced and sculptured as only Grosset knows how.

Medium yellow-green; a highly floral bouquet in a classic mould flecked with lime and toast. Sculptured in the Grosset fashion on the palate, with ripples of flavour; the hint of residual sugar present in the wine can barely be detected.

Light to medium yellow-green; a very fragrant bouquet with a distinct minerally edge to the herb and spice fruit. The palate is intense but fine, with tremendous grip and length to the finish; tighter and less evolved than the Watervale, but will literally flower with time in bottle.

Light to medium yellow-green; vibrant lime, spice and herb aromas on the bouquet announce a wine with an almost fleshy feel in the mouth, with glorious mid to back palate weight; typically elegant, yet very long.

Light green-yellow; intense mineral, lime, spice and powdery aromas are followed by a similarly intensely-flavoured palate veering more towards lime and spice. A classically austere wine with a bone-dry finish. As good as ever.

Glowing yellow-green; as ever, a pure and intense celebration of Clare Riesling with lime, citrus and a hint of mineral on the bouquet. The palate is perfectly balanced, again showing pure varietal fruit character, with fine lime, citrus and herb flavours; perfectly balanced, with a lingering finish.

Magic stuff! It has amazing power and intensity of flavour, at once varietal and complex, with unmistakeable riesling fruit and also botrytis enrichment. The nose shows it's still unready, with some yeast esters, and the acidity which cuts through the terrific richness of the wine is a trifle harsh and needs time to settle in. Give it a year, then serve with fruit salad and double cream.

There is a quiet precision in Jeffrey Grossett's demeanour, wholly apposite to his mantle as heir apparent to John Vickery, Australia's greatest Riesling maker. This wine is a classic, with far more lime and passionfruit than usual apparent at this early stage, providing a deliciously lingering finish.

Light to medium green-yellow; a crisp, clean bouquet which is utterly classic Clare Valley, minerally and less exuberant than the Polish Hill of the same year. The palate is lively and lingering, with more citrus fruit showing than in the bouquet; very good balance and length.

Bright, pale and greenish in colour, this riesling has everything in the right place. The nose has understated power; it's very aromatic, spicy and lime-scented with an essency quality that separates it from the ruck. The concentrated palate has that spice and lime, as well as great length and a tight minerally backbone. A big riesling that needs cellaring, then serve with cold seafood.