Rippon ‘Rippon’ Mature Vine Riesling 2022
$65.00 inc. GST
Pure, textural, luscious, inviting, a riesling of accuracy and drinkability.
Description
A warm & productive summer put plenty of flesh on this wine. The fruit is issued from Rippon’s mature vines, whose root hairs have invaded the schist rock below. Lurking towards the end of the first mouthful is substantial phenolic power and it soon starts to take charge of the wine… and give it its sense of place
Additional Information
| size | 750ml |
|---|---|
| brand | Rippon |
| vintage | 2022 |
Reviews / Awards / Ratings
Rippon Rippon Mature Vine Riesling 2022
THE WINEFRONT – Campbell Mattinson Posted on 05 June 2024.
Rated : 95 Points
The intensity of flavour here is right up there. There’s a certain softness to the acidity, though the wine’s backbone lacks for nothing, and the way apple, pineapple, lime, mandarin and honey characters pour it on, start to finish, is really something. The finish has a talc-like dryness, the fruit itself a suggestion of sweetness, the wine as a whole as convincing as it is lovely.Alcohol : 12.5%
Stephen Wong MW
95 POINTS
Pale gold. A reductive nose with noticeable sulfides over sunny, ripe stone-fruit and decadent manuka honey. The palate also exhibits some hard edges at this stage – very young and still awkward – but the wine underneath has a gentle and confident power with juicy fruit and a lush texture before the phenolics and reduction close in on the end with astringency. Give it a few years and it should come right: there is enough stuffing and density here to still provide a decade of enjoyment after that..2026–2036.
