Tasting Note

Colour: Clear bight straw with white gold edges.
Aroma: Complex and vibrant, showing lemon pith, finger lime, white blossom, cherry blossom, bay leaf and honey suckle characters with a touch of minerality.
Palate: Fresh, bright and dry with lime, lemon sherbet, complex minerality, wonderful texture and excellent length.


Wine Profile

Region: Strathbogie Ranges
Vineyard: Elgo (Grass Tree Block)
Vintage: 2022
Variety: 100% Riesling
Production: 160 Cases
Harvested: 15/3/2022
pH: 3.09
Alcohol: 12.5%
Vinification: A two day cold soak, followed by fermentation of 50 days including four days on skins with gentle punch-downs twice a day to extract the amazing characters of the Riesling skins before being pressed off to barrel for the remainder of fermentation with lees stirring twice weekly to increase complexity and mouthfeel.
Maturation: In barrel for a further two months on full solids with lees stirring to add a creaminess to balance the acidity on the palate. Bottled unfined and unfiltered.
 
Review
From Strathbogie Ranges comes another interesting suite of wines from Municipal, one of my ‘under the radar but up in lights’ producers. So many good wines emerge from this project.

There’s a kind of honeyed, toasty glow to the wine but still with freshness in reserve. Lemon curd, green apple crunch, sweet spices, a touch of straw, peanut brittle faintly in there. Lots of flavour, bright acid profile, general energy and deliciousness. Quietly complex is the gist. Drinkability high. Go forth.
Mike Bennie  -  http://www.winefront.com.au