Crawford River Riesling 2022

The new 2022 Riesling is superb. It’s a powerful, mineral wine with deep concentration of flavour and firm yet fleshy acidity. The nose and flavour spectrum are full of ginger spice aromatics. There’s a long intensity to the palate with a mineral backbone and a deft touch of phenolics – very rarely seen in Australia but found in some of the best German Rieslings. A real WOW factor here. We were also treated to the 2013 and 2009 vintages, both stunning. Highly recommended. Ian Cook, FWC.

Crawford River are one of the more anticipated releases with unnerving consistency and quality. Interesting that these wines have been part of the make up of my work, in various guises, for now over 20 years too. This is one of the most straight up delicious releases I have tried. Moreish to the max. It’s succulent in texture, which is important, which means it’s juicy but also has chalky pucker. perfect. This one has a lime sorbet bent, green apple sherbet too, a splash of gin n tonic perhaps – all of that sounds pretty delicious as a thing to consume. It’s fragrant, flavoursome and very refreshing. Extension of flavour is significant too. It just nails everything so well. 96 points. - Mike Bennie, Wine Front.