Zind Humbrecht, Clos Hauserer Riesling other_regions_australia dusty and beautifully long finish

dusty and beautifully long finish

Seville orange marmalade

(aged for nine-and-a-half years in American oak barrels and then held in bottle for at least nine years before release) Limpid

(from a 2-ha parcel with a mix of 80% 75+ year old vines and the remainder of 15 to 20-year-old vines)

This is also very clearly built-to-age and I wouldn’t dream of touching a bottle for at least 10 years and it should easily reward 20

Zind Humbrecht, Clos Hauserer Riesling other_regions_australia dusty and beautifully long finishThe 2005 Riesling Clos Hauserer was another of Humbrechts reluctant fermentors, from very ripe and rot tinged grapes, but thanks to high acidity 22 grams of residual sugar only subtly make their presence known. Vanilla, licorice, sage, quince and peach preserves, orange zest, and brown spices are the key notes in this rich yet almost aggressively penetrating Riesling, but there is also an undeniably chalky undertone to its blazingly citric as well as