Floral, lemon/lime and lychee aromas are followed by intense apple, lime and orange blossom on the palate. The wine has great length of palate with the soft refreshing acidity balancing the intensity of fruit and providing the backbone to enable medium to long term cellaring if so desired.

Fittingly, the fruit for this wine was sourced just a quick hop, skip and a stump jump from Australia’s first nude beach. The wine itself is uninhibited. Fully exposed in youth, exhibiting candied lime and cumquot characters on the nose partnered by delightfully pretty frangipani notes. The analogy with the beach continues as we are initially hit with a wave of sea spray flavour, complemented beautifully by more citrus fruits and a mouthwatering sherbert like finish. The attack is sumptuous but quickly tightens up as the lively acidity balances out the sweetness, leading into a long, lingering finish. Release your inhibitions with this raw exhibition of McLaren Vale Riesling, the way it was intended.

Grosset Springvale has attractive lemon blossom aromatics with a hint of chalkiness; is intensely dry and mouthpuckering in its youth; shows generous lime, lemongrass flavours again with minerally notes; and finishes dry, vibrant and long. It is poised and given neat balance by its tight structure and shaley minerally acidity.