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Grosset Springvale Riesling 2017

$37.00

SPECIAL DOZEN BUY! Outstanding vintage of this iconic riesling.  Best Value Winery 2018 by James Halliday.

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Description

Established in 1981, the winery is situated in the historic township of Auburn at the southern tip of the Clare Valley.  Remaining small and focused has allowed Grosset Wines to preserve the character and individuality of the wines, developing a significant international profile by producing wines deemed consistently outstanding, benchmarks in their class.
Jeffrey Grosset, owner and founder, has always been an innovator, challenging tradition and questioning accepted practices. He campaigned to institute the legal integrity of the riesling grape in Australia, was a leading proponent for the introduction of screwcap closures and privately funded research into the subject.
The emphasis is on purity of fruit. The estate vineyards, which are ACO certified organic, are hand tended and each bunch of grapes is harvested at optimum ripeness. The winemaking process is gentle and uncomplicated. With dedication, discipline and the application of knowledge garnered through decades of experience, the result is the finest expression of variety and place.
Jeffrey Grosset is internationally recognised as one of the ‘Top 10 White Winemakers’ (Decanter, UK) and one of the ‘50 Most Influential Winemakers’ (Wine & Spirits, USA) in the world today. Grosset Polish Hill is produced exclusively from the eight-hectare estate-owned Polish Hill Vineyard in the Clare Valley.  The gently sloping site is comprised of silt and shallow shales over a thin crust of clay and gravel. This overlays a bed of blue slate, estimated to be around 500-million-years old.
This single-site wine epitomises riesling from the Watervale sub-region. One of ‘Australia’s Five Most Collected White Wines’ (Wine Ark), rated ‘Outstanding’ by Langton’s Wine Classification.

‘The Springvale vineyard was planted seventeen years ago. It is unique on two fronts: First, its odd shape accurately reflects the red loam-over-limestone profile below. Under this limestone is slate, its existence discovered by us only after the vine roots had reached that far. Second, the mix of riesling clones is rare. The result is a deliciously limey riesling with backbone.’ Jeffery Grosset

About the amazing 2017 releases by Jefferey Grosset:  “This is a sensational year for Grosset. In addition to having eight wines included in Tyson Stelzer’s ‘Top 150’ for 2017, our team has just returned from the Halliday Wine Companion Awards 2018 at which Grosset Wines received the award for Australia’s ‘Best Value Winery’! Such consistency and acknowledgement is not possible without great vineyards and a dedicated team.
2017 is our third consecutive outstanding vintage and makes 2017, 2016 and 2015 the best run of seasons we have ever experienced. These latest release wines are beautiful expressions of variety, season and site.

The 2017 vintage was a full month later than the previous two. It was almost European in character with much higher rainfall during the growing season. Whether the ability of each of our sites to produce such outstanding and consistent quality wine is due to our focus on the geology when choosing the land to plant, the relatively rare mix of vine clones planted, or the organic principles applied, we may never know. We can say that the combination of these has had a profound impact. This is especially true for our three rieslings; each being from a unique vineyard site.
The resilience of our vines and their ability to consistently produce superior quality wine in a world where climatic conditions are changing is nothing short of a marvel. I recommend this latest release of wines to you.”

From the winery about this wine: “The ‘Springvale’ also surprises, being more intensely primal than it is in most vintages. It entices with lime and lemon blossom aromas. There’s layer after layer of mouth-puckering lime juice flavours, tight structure, spine-tingling acidity and shaley minerally notes that linger. It’s an outstanding ‘Springvale’, fine, intense, pure, minerally and dry.”  Ageing potential 5 – 20 years.

RRP $45    **SPECIAL DOZEN BUY – Only $37.00 when you buy 12 of this wine**

Additional information

Producer

Grosset

Variety

Riesling

Region or Country

Australia, Clare Valley

Vintage

2017

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