It’s so dramatically perfumed that it’s almost overwhelming: the aromatics themselves are not so surprising – lovely florals, lemongrass, lime juice. On the palate, too, the lime and lemon flavours are concentrated, powerful and weighty with impressive length on a fine, mouth-puckering finish featuring crisp, cleansing acidity that lingers. While it’s immediately appealing, there’s no question that this is age-worthy.
As good as any Grosset Springvale Riesling of the past decade, with beautifully balanced and very expressive lime juice fruit and crystalline acidity flowing through the gloriously long palate. Drink now or soonish if you value freshness, in 5-10 years if you value complexity. JH
$ 598
Grosset Springvale Riesling 2017
Succulent lime and lemon flavors are precise and vibrant on a light frame, with a note of minerality and lemongrass on the finish. Drink now.
$ 428
Grosset Springvale Riesling 2019
It’s so dramatically perfumed that it’s almost overwhelming: the aromatics themselves are not so surprising – lovely florals, lemongrass, lime juice. On the palate, too, the lime and lemon flavours are concentrated, powerful and weighty with impressive length on a fine, mouth-puckering finish featuring crisp, cleansing acidity that lingers. While it’s immediately appealing, there’s no question that this is age-worthy.
$ 428
Grosset Springvale Riesling 2018
This is an outstanding Springvale Riesling. Intense citrus aromatics that linger; the palate is taut, even coiled, and powered by intense lemon and lime pith and enticing florals that persist; while the finish is long, zesty, and bone dry. For all its mouth-puckering intensity, there is balance, a touch of restraint, satisfying finesse and an immediacy that appeals.
$ 428
Grosset Springvale Riesling 2024
RP
95
JH
95
JS
95
Very tightly wound, with complex aromas of lemon pith, flint, fresh herbs and crushed river stones. The palate is light- to medium-bodied with underlying power cut through with laser-like acidity, giving notes of grapefruit pith, lime zest and chalk. Exceptional. JS