2024 Grosset Alea Riesling, Clare Valley

Alea holds some additional sweetness as its canon. There's an appealing and ultra-high drinkability here. Charm in spades. Floral scents of frangipani and lemon blossom with candied ginger, lime juice, just-ripe pineapple and tonic water. Similar to taste with a slipperiness to texture that feels well metered by the building crispness of the finish. More tonic and pleasing, quinine-like bitterness in juicy lime, red apple, pineapple and gingery flavours, too. Even, balanced, cool fringes and an appealing, transparent glassiness overall.

95 points Special Value Mike Bennie winecompanion.com.au

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This is the fifteenth vintage of the ‘European’ style from the Grosset Rockwood Vineyard with its hard red rock and poor orange/red loam soil. This delivers impressive depth of flavour in the mid-palate, pronounced lime and lemony flavours that are intense and deep, finishing almost bone-dry with purity and finesse; same variety, yet a quite different and fascinating alternative to Grosset Polish Hill.

Ageing Potential: Drink now – 20 years

Produced from riesling grown biodynamically at the Grosset Springvale Vineyard

Unfined- vegan and vegetarian friendly

Delicate floral perfumes, lemon blossom, juicy lemon pith, a pure expression of the variety that balances intense limey notes with plush lemony flavours and impeccable layering. With the vineyard now fully mature this vintage completes the refinement of the ‘Alea’ style: a very engaging and beautiful wine.

Ageing Potential: Drink now – 20 years

Produced from riesling grown at the Grosset Rockwood Vineyard
Certified organic and biodynamic (ACO)

Each of these latest releases is produced from a vineyard that we planted decades ago. The aim then (as now) was to grow fruit to make the best wines possible. Odd-shaped vineyards, impractical (albeit beautiful) locations, were positioned in higher altitude (cooler) sites with the desired mix of soil, rock and aspect.

This vintage, those vineyards produced the most pristine fruit that we have seen. We put this and the fruit’s intense flavours down to the cool conditions early (the riesling fruit was hand harvested before hotter weather in March) and the impact of biodynamic farming.