Wild Earth Wines
Riesling 2022 750ml

This beautifully balanced Riesling is full of inviting aromas of nectarine, apple blossom, citrus and white pepper.  The palate is refreshing and bright with sweet lemon, crunchy pear, and green apple. Beautifully balanced, it has an intense front palate that crescendos to a complex, long and mineral finish with distinctive acidity that ensures great potential for aging. Enjoyable at release, this wine will continue to evolve for 12+ years.

Awards and reviews 96 points, 5 stars – Sam Kim, Wine Orbit, Aug 2024 5 stars – Michael Cooper, Oct 2024 94 points, excellent – Cameron Douglas MS, Aug 2024 18.5/20, 93 points, 5 stars – Candice Chow, Raymond Chan Wine Reviews, Aug 2024 93 points, 4 stars – Stephen Wong, The Real Review, Aug 2024 17.5/20 points – Joelle Thomson, Aug 2024

The Waitaki Valley in North Otago is renowned for its limestone rich soils which give great minerality and focus to the wines. The maritime climate makes the North Otago region different to the more highly planted semi- continental Central Otago region and the unique limestone rich soils result in wines with crunchy natural acidity and distinctive minerality. The 2021-2022 growing season was “classic” with no frosts in this vineyard which also had a great flowering resulting in a full yield with healthy grapes. Autumn was unseasonably warm, but a long hang time was still achieved delivering fully developed flavours.

The pristine Riesling grapes were hand harvested from a single vineyard near the Waitaki River at optimal ripeness on 3rd of May 2022. The grapes were whole bunch pressed to a stainless-steel tank for cold settling for two days. The juice was then racked and inoculated with selected German Riesling yeast and fermented at cool temperatures to retain the fresh aromatics. The fermentation was stopped at the perfect balance of residual sugar and acidity resulting in a just slightly off-dry wine with a long dry, crisp, and mineral finish.

This wine is vegan.

Alcohol: 10.5% PH: 2.93 T.A. 9.4 g/L Residual Sugar: 20.3 g/L