2023 Framingham Classic Riesling, Marlborough

With age comes maturity, wisdom, and (it would seem) good taste. Every year, our Classic Riesling comes together from our venerable selection of some of New Zealand’s oldest Riesling grapevines. We hand-select small parcels from each long-established vine to get a medley of different fruit characteristics, ranging from Meyer Lemon to Mandarin Orange. The result is as deliciously complex as you’d hope from a life this well lived.

Framingham Classic Riesling is a generous, mouth-filling wine with ripe orange citrus flavours and juicy acidity (Spatlese halbtroken in style).

Aromatics are reminiscent of mandarin, with hints of Belgian beer in the young wine, gin and tonic, stofruit and suggestions of moke and rock. Vibrant, intense, focused palate with orange, Meyer lemon and stone fruit flabvours and a good line of juicy acidity.