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Anandale Farm Riesling 2024 750ml

New Release

ACCOLADES

93 POINTS - ‘Medium-dry riesling with lime/citrus, oyster shell, a suggestion of honey and white rose petal flavours. A perfect balance of restrained sweetness with bright acidity gives the wine an exquisite tension.’ BOB CAMPBELL MW

94 POINTS - ‘A curiously complex nose with smoke, subtle flint, pepper and savoury earthiness. The palate leans into the savoury notes along with a touch of toasty, biscuity funk, revealing a generous sweetness mid-palate before the limy acidity streaks through to counteract the sugar, leaving the finish surprisingly off-dry and mouth-wateringly tart despite being technically sweeter than that. Powdery and pithy phenolics add to the length. A more daring modern Germanic approach which is well-judged and interesting.’ STEPHEN WONG

4.5 STARS ‘The pale lemon/green 2024 vintage is a single-vineyard wine, hand-harvested at Blind River, south of the Awatere Valley.  Light-bodied (9 per cent alcohol by volume), it is a vigorous, medium style of Riesling, with penetrating, delicate, citrusy fruit flavours, finely balanced sweetness and acidity, and a lengthy, tightly structured finish.  Still very youthful, it's well worth cellaring to 2027+.’ MICHAEL COOPER MA ONZM

94 POINTS - ‘Classic, off-dry, fragrant and delicious on the palate. Aromas and flavours of white peach and lemon, a mix of red and green apple, white rose and wet stone minerality. The acid line carries the purity of fruit flavours and contrasts the off-dry sweetness level, there’s a fine saline quality, excellent phenolics and mouthfeel leading to a lengthy finish with complexity and finesse. Best drinking from day of purchase through 2030+.’ CAMERON DOUGLAS 

91 POINTS - ‘The 2024 Riesling Anandale Farm welcomes you like an old friend with a burst of immediate sweetness before it provides its firm line of acidity, skewering the wine's core. There's a push-and-pull reminiscent of the tension that you get when you stretch a piece of elastic in both directions. Attractive flavors of apple, violet and orange citrus combine, but they don't persist for as long as I'd like.’ REBECCA GIBB MW | VINOUS.COM

90 POINTS - ‘A fresh and fruity riesling with an off-dry palate of lemons and green melon with bright acidity and a clean and vivid finish. Straightforward. Drink now. Screw cap.’ JAMES SUCKLING