Category:Riesling

November 21
Riesling Tasting – ‘Strayan Style

Lets have another look at how our wine makers in Australia manipulate and tinker with another wonderful Noble grape variety. This week we will look at Riesling – ‘Strayan Style.

In virtually every growing region in Australia you will invariably find Riesling planted, yet with each different region you will again invariably see vastly different styles and guises of this grape due to altitude, soil, temperature and whether or not irrigation is used. And all this amounts to what we think at the WINE STORE | WINE BAR as Australia’s true expression on how terroir is viewed.

So make sure you pop through this Saturday, November 24th from 3-6ish and have a look at the many different interpretations of this wonderful variety that we grow and make here.

October 25
Meet The Maker Sessions – Dom Valentine of Valentine Wines

With another Saturday comes another Meet The Maker Sessions with this Saturday to be hosted by Dom Valentine of Valentine Wines.

Dom’s wine journey started in 2010 while working in Rudesheim and Geisenheim in Germany’s Rheingau region. In that year, Dom worked for both both Weingut Josef Leitz and Weingut Georg Breuer – two of the region’s most respected producers. Each of those experiences was  inspiration to return to Australia and pursue his Valere project whereby he sourced grapes each year from a different vineyard in Victoria to explore the lessons learned in Germany.

Fast forward some years and Dom has added a deliciously perfumed Heathcote Grenache and a wildly ace Chardonnay from Victoria’s highest altitude vineyard in Whitlands in the NE of Victoria. Both wines add to Dom’s unmistakable light touch when it comes to producing wines that have true terroir expressions.

So as Molly would say, do yourself a favour and swing on by the WINE STORE | WINE BAR this Saturday, October 27th from 3-6ish and have a gander of three of our fave wines for 2018.

February 16
Ministry Of Clouds Clare Valley Riesling 2016

It’s going to be a sweaty day out there today. And for relief; drink this!!!!

The quite stunning, and in my eyes, one of the best value – and simply best, Rieslings I’ve seen come out of the Clare Valley – Ministry Of Clouds Clare Valley Riesling 2016. Big call you say? Well yes, it is a big call but what separates this Riesling from other Clare Rieslings is that it is not all about acid and citrus pith. This wine has a beautiful floral note on the nose that lingers and builds in to lovely bitter kumquat aromas. Lovely. The palette opens up with chalky minerality which blooms in to more delish kumquat that then finishes with a moorish bitter melon taste. Just super yum .

Drink with shallow-fried white bait and always $30

 

September 11
#TimeToTaste – New Rosé’s and Rieslings on tasting Saturday September 12

rosie“When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! the doxy, over the dale,
Why, then comes in the sweet o’ the year;
For the red blood reigns in the winter’s pale.
The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;
For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.”
William Shakespeare, The Winters Tale 4.2.1-8

You can just imagine old Will sitting down and sipping a ripping glass or two of Riesling or Rosé when he penned that lovely ode to Spring can’t you.

Oh what a gorgeous day it is today, yet tomorrow is shaping up to be even better. So take advantage of this beautiful weather (while it lasts, because this is Melbourne) and swing on by the WINE STORE | WINE BAR tomorrow from 2-5 for a cheeky tasting of  some new release Riesling’s and Rosé’s.

See you at the bar!!!

March 22
Wine for a Beautiful Sunday – The Liquid Rock n Roll Riesling 2013

rock n roll rzaWhen it’s as good a day in Melbourne as it is today, then I would expect there to be plenty of picnic blankets covering grass in backyards and parks all over town. And when you get weather this good there is nothing better than fielding out deep in a little game of backyard or park cricket and sipping on a delicious Riesling; they won’t hit it to you.

So if that’s the case why not try this little number; the Liquid Rock n Roll Acid Rock Riesling 2013 from the King Valley. Beautifully balanced acid is accompanied with bitter melon, quince and cumquat. A ripping wine for your glass where you hope it’s going to be the sip that never quits.

Drink it with BBQ chicken and $23 always

February 28
Between 5 Bells Heathcote Red Wine 2013

An interesting label you say? Yes it is. An interesting blend? Double Yes.

These guys do not do things by halves and certainly not weighed down by convention when it comes to blending. Nero d’Avola, Chardonnay, Riesling and Negreoamaro. Yep. All in one blend. And no SO2. That’s the funky stuff. But you know what? It really works and tastes awesomely tickityboo.

The nose starts with bright blueberry that slowly takes on a more tart complexity with blood orange citrus poking through. The palate starts pretty much the same way as the nose with clean and bright fruit up front which slowly evolves in to a dry garden herbage; think fennel.

All in all, a ripping wine. $37

A very unusual blend indeed

A very unusual blend indeed