O'Leary Walker Polish Hill River Riesling 2022

O'Leary Walker Polish Hill River Riesling 2022James Halliday Top 100 Wines of 2022 "A glorious wine, intense and focused, with a prodigious lingering aftertaste." Nick Munday "You know that glories are to follow when this blossoms." Ken Gargett "A brilliant Riesling. Steely, focused and damn fantastic. Bravo." Steve Leszczynski "What an extraordinary wine! Alive and vital, taut as a drum." Jeni Port "A remarkably intense and powerful Riesling." Ray Jordan "Evocative with extraordinary staying

The nose alone is worth the money

tinged with purple

A lovely aromatic wine with dark cherry and blackcurrant aromas and violet and camomile notes

"A 51/49% blend of cabernet sauvignon and shiraz sourced from seven regions in SA

with vitality to burn

Putting value into the equation here though is unintentioanally demeaning: Majella cabernet is very good

and I still await each release with a similar enthusiastic impatience

this wine is now showing signs of maturity in the hints of brick red hue that appear in the glass

grilled cocoa and Monte Cristo on the nose

that capture a sense of time and place that ignited our desire to start a label

This leads on nose and palate with a seamless and prolonged delivery of mouthwatering lime and grapefruit

The palate has a very plush