Wine Review: A 'pitch-perfect' Stargazer Tasmanian Riesling

The fruit source is the Palisander Vineyard in the Tea Tree region of the Coal River Valley some 20 minutes north-east of Hobart. The fruit profile is interesting here. From the Clare Valley we expect fresh lime juice and Christmas lily high-tones; in the Eden Valley that intense Bickford’s lime character and jasmine and frangipani top-notes.

In Tasmania, the prominent fruit aromas sit more in the grapefruit and green apple spectrums; such are the wonders of site and regional specific character s.

There is a wee scale on the label, the International Riesling Scale, which gives you an idea of how sweet or dry a particular wine is. This particular baby walks the knife-edge of dry and off-dry with about 8 g/L residual sugar tempered beautifully by bright, fine acidity.

Pitch-perfect tension between fruit sweetness and line with stunning pure fruit and a lovely fresh, yet textural, mouthfeel.

A producer doing great things.

STARGAZER 2017 Tasmania Riesling

Header photo: James Broadway