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.

The wine shows a brilliant, exceptionally pale straw colour with youthful green tinges on release, and exhibits pungent spicy blossom aromas, and hints of stone fruits enhanced by an underlying citrus vibrancy. A seamless palate follows, with initial flavours of passionfruit and lemon barley leading to a richer, spicy mid-palate with hints of pear, and finishing with classic mouth-watering citrus.

The nose displays punchy lemon tart, zesty lime juice, freshly grated ginger and quintessential Watervale Riesling musk.

The palate delivers intense lime, lemon and grapefruit with an overall generosity of fruit based sweetness. The palate is full, textural and structured with a spine of natural grape acidity and a zesty, clean crisp finish.

Riesling is an under rated variety in the Yarra Valley. With an understanding of the variety it produces quite exotic textural aromatic wines with good natural acidity and an ability to balance slightly higher sugar levels. The addition of some old vine Gewurztraminer (planted in 1976) and a little upper Yarra Pinot Gris gives some additional complexity and interest to the wine.