Detonation Riesling 2021

From at least 40-year-old vines in steep vineyards and bottled the same day as the CAI, the 2021 Riesling Detonation combines intense and ripe fruit with delicate and coolish slate aromas and fine flintiness. It is also really delicate on the palate, which is silky, crystalline and vibrantly fresh, vital and tensioned, with bright, light and shining fruit. Definitely a wine for terroir and oyster lovers rather than fans of Riesling as a grape variety. This is a freakily straight, pure and elegant Riesling that is as pure and refreshing as pure fish. 11% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in October 2022.

This youthful dry riesling has impressive depth of stone fruit with plenty of spicy and leesy complexity. Serious concentration and salty minerality for this category (just one step above entry level), then an elegant and long crystalline finish From at least 40 year old vines. Drink or hold. Screw cap.