2022 Vickery Riesling, Eden Valley

Open a bottle, pour a glass and stand back. Prepare yourself for the aromatic scent that can hit you like a hammer. This vintage is chock full of everything we love about Eden Valley Riesling in spades. My notes started to look like a shopping list: talc, white flowers, bath salts, white pepper, Thai basil, green apple, green papaya and, finally, dusty lemon. I added preserved lemon and ginger to the list when I finally tore myself away from the perfume and tasted the wine. You might say it’s a complex, yes. Acidity is keen, a might sharper or at least more pronounced than its sister Riesling from Watervale and it’s sustained from go to whoa with good depth of concentration. Another ’22 riesling for the cellar – I suspect that cellar is about to get pretty crowded.

95 points Jeni Port winepilot.com

 A rapier-like release from riesling master John Vickery that celebrates all that is great about the Eden Valley. It's a picture of purity, precision and velocity with tight, limey fruit cut with high tones of Christmas lily, crushed quartz, orange blossom and river stone. Tight, vivid acidity has the wine riding on rails and setting a brisk cadence with uber-pure lime fruits powering through to the finish. It's quite lovely.

95 points Dave Brooke winecompanion.com.au

This 2022 Eden Valley Riesling is exceptional: briny and taut, and the nose is layered with crushed rocks (quartz, white things), spring flowers, lemon zest and preserved citrus. In the mouth, the wine carries the austere salty character and expresses its tightly coiled, springy fruit profile as it unfurls through the long finish. It's a very smart, tense wine.

94 points Erin Larkin robertparker.com 

The 2022 vintage has produced distinct and expressive wines, showing fantastic varietal regionality. The growing season was very cool, and we experienced low rainfall which allowed the fruit to hang on the vine a little longer than in previous years, developing flavour without climatic pressures. The resulting wines are bright with balanced high natural acid, enhancing the primary tones and lifted aromas.Green with hints of light straw yellow. Powerful with lifted notes of bath salts, florals, bright blossoms and lemon. Pure and bright. Juicy grapefruit, lemon curd and spices. Mouth filling with lovely fresh and balanced acidity.

A Riesling with beautiful purity and prettiness in youth that promises to be a wonderful wine to age – 10+ years.Vickery Wines is the culmination of John Vickery's half-century of winemaking experience, partnered alongside family friend and talented winemaker Phil Lehmann. Together they create Rieslings that showcase John's extensive expertise with the most noble of white wine varieties.It begins in the regions where John made his mark. Eden Valley in the Barossa and Watervale in the Clare Valley. It goes further into the sub-districts of these regions that John knows intimately, and partnering with growers who have the right vineyards in the right locations to produce the best possible fruit. Once fruit is picked at optimum ripeness, Phil and John employ the winemaking techniques that he has refined and perfected over time, to craft Rieslings that carry his signature style and fastidious quality standards.The Vickery label is in effect, a time capsule for John's wealth of winemaking knowledge. It allows his experience and winemaking techniques to be used without compromise, and then passed on to current and future generations of Riesling winemakers.