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 initial impression on the palate is that of seamless structure, fine vibrant acids and lingering citrus flavours. The use of free-run juice only has given the wine "fineness" balancing the fragile varietal flavours of Riesling. There is a complex array of flavours in the mouth, dominated by lemons, limes, and grapefruit. These are supported by hints of spice and mineral on the mid-palate and green apple on the impressively long finish.