The Elderton Wines Estate Riesling 2024 showcases the exceptional characteristics of Eden Valley, where the cooler climate and mineral-rich soils allow for the creation of world-class Riesling.
Sourced from a blend of the vibrant Craneford vineyard and the austere, depth-filled Mengler Hill site, this wine captures the perfect balance of bright acidity and intense minerality.
It offers a crisp and clean profile, with floral notes and citrus-driven freshness. This wine is ideal for fine dining venues and restaurants, offering a refined option for your wine list.
Bottle Size: 750ml
Per Case: 12
Alcohol: 11.50%
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Winemaker Notes
Following a challenging and relatively wet 2023, we approached 2024 with optimism, anticipating a more typical vintage.
Instead, we encountered an exceptionally dry season, which tested our vines after a relatively easy year. To navigate these conditions, we implemented measured irrigation to ensure our canopies remained adequate for ripening and applied a natural clay ‘sunscreen’ spray to shield the Mengler fruit from excessive sun exposure.
The dry weather accelerated ripening, leading us to harvest the two parcels within days of each other. The Craneford fruit was machine-harvested in the cool early morning, while the Mengler fruit was handpicked a couple of days later.
As we begin to understand the characteristics of our Mengler fruit, we fermented the parcels separately to gain valuable insights into its expression of site throughout fermentation and beyond.
The resulting blend of the two parcels demonstrates how Mengler fruit enhances our Riesling, adding to the fragrance of our Craneford vineyard while giving the wine a more serious edge and layers of complexity.
– Jules Ashmead & Brock Harrison
95 points – The Vintage Journal SA Wine Guide
Lovely, delicate white orchard florals with superb citrus/lemon flavours and decisive palate cut. Great balance and delivery with aromatics, flavours, acidity all linking hands in finely crafted wine of the highest standard.
93 points + special value rating – Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion
I really like the 2024 Eden Valley rieslings. As you’d expect they are limey and crisp, all focus and velocity as per usual.
There’s the telltale regional Christmas lily note in there as well, but in this particular example there’s an endearing clover blossom and dried honey tone … just liminal, somewhere off in the olfactory peripheral vision.
And it finishes super stony and composed with energy to burn and I like that, too. Nice one.
Canberra International Riesling Challenge: Silver
Royal Melbourne Wine Show: Silver
