Leo Buring
Leonay DW L17 High Eden Riesling
Eden Valley, Barossa, South Australia, Australia
A return visit to this little number, picked up as a secondary market bargain, a good few years after the first tasting. It’s still bristling with acid and youthful vibrance, like licking pithy lime off a stone. But there’re other developed notes, like latex notes mixed with citrus blossom on the nose, ruby grapefruit pucker through the mid palate and citrus peel pucker to finish. It does fall a touch flat through the middle, perhaps going through a flat phase? With two more stashed in the cellar and a fair bit of life in this yet, there’s interesting drinking to come.
A return visit to this little number, picked up as a secondary market bargain, a good few years after the first tasting. It’s still bristling with acid and youthful vibrance, like licking pithy lime off a stone. But there’re other developed notes, like latex notes mixed with citrus blossom on the nose, ruby grapefruit pucker through the mid palate and citrus peel pucker to finish. It does fall a touch flat through the middle, perhaps going through a flat phase? With two more stashed in the cellar and a fair bit of life in this yet, there’s interesting drinking to come.
May 24th, 2023Glorious stuff. There's a softness to the nose that belies the power of the wine, revealed in an intense wash of concentrated fruit and bristling acid as it rolls across the tongue, finishing with some pear and apple tartness and lingering for an age. It keeps evolving in the glass as it warms. I'm sure there's a stunning future ahead of it, but it's super drinking right now.
Glorious stuff. There's a softness to the nose that belies the power of the wine, revealed in an intense wash of concentrated fruit and bristling acid as it rolls across the tongue, finishing with some pear and apple tartness and lingering for an age. It keeps evolving in the glass as it warms. I'm sure there's a stunning future ahead of it, but it's super drinking right now.
Nov 10th, 2017