Jim Barry Florita Riesling Museum Release 2017

Tasted at the Armagh Hut with Sam and Tom Barry, the 2017 The Florita Rieslingis tight, taut and saline-it is mineral and tense, almost shale-y in its acid profile. It is powerful and driven and blisteringly good. Really good. It is yet to unfurl and offers notes of preserved lemon and lavender - is there turmeric and lanolin in there too? Boom. This is really good. Drink it now or in decades to come, it's a sleeper. 2017 was a cooler, wetter year and higher yielding. Drink 2022-2047. 97 Points. Erin Larkin (2022).

Superlative Clare! Grapefruit pulp, lemon zest, jasmine, bath salts and Thai herb notes stream across a bow of limestone-derived minerality and palate-whetting acidity. This is long, penetrative across a multitude of layers and yet, despite the razor-sharp definition, relaxed. There is nothing hard or abrasive about this. It flows long with alacrity in its step! This will reward patience in the cellar. Drink to 2032. 97 Points. Ned Goodwin MW, Halliday's Wine Companion (2021).