Snake + Herring High + Dry Riesling 2014
100% Riesling
The 2014 season has produced stunning Riesling fruit with finely poised acidity and powerful long finishes. The High and Dry 2014 shows us the classic lime line: juice skin and pith. There’s a talc minerality underlying the citrus, a taut highwire of tension that guides the line of this wine. Fruit on the palate is focused and pure, with power, length and succulence. The keen acid on the palate doesn’t overcome or define. Balance. Length. Florals on finish add to the allure.
Hand picked and whole cluster pressed; free run juice only; neutral yeast; no acid added. Two individual blocks were handpicked separately and whole bunch pressed to a meagre 470 l/T. This resulted in lightly cloudy free run juices with very little phenolics. A neutral yeast was selected to ferment clean and the wine was left on lees for 6 weeks before racking.
Single Vineyard, Porongurup, Great Southern