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‘Jeffrey Grosset’s Clare Valley rieslings are a must-buy every year, but in a year like 2024 they become a “sell a kidney to buy more” proposition. His magisterial ‘Polish Hill’ wine will be a long-lived classic, but right now this utterly beguiling offering from his Watervale vineyard, strewn with citrus blossom, lifted by lemongrass and electrified with thrilling acidity, is undeniable.’

The aromatics of this vintage are so lifted you can smell them before you even lift the glass! This pristine, cool season has energised the full suite of granny smith apple, lemon and lime blossom and fruit, set to a them of impressive concentration that lingers on a cool finish of icy acidity and grand endurance. One of the greats.

Polish Hill has this covered but this is still a fabulous Springvale Riesling. It’s an interesting wine, driven by lemon and lime as you would expect but with anise, marshmallow and pretty floral characters floating about. The anise is almost into red licorice territory, which seems bizarre in a riesling, but it’s definitely there, like a lurker to the forum of citrus and tonic water. Grosset has been a star producer for all the time I’ve been in wine but right now its wines are as good or better than they’ve ever been. I’m opting for a score of 95 but I could easily go 96.

An attractive and approachable, understated expression emerges from this '24 release of Springvale. Lemon-lime, some orange peel, faint minty notes, green apple juice, with some lemon verbena and tutti-frutti floral notes expressed through scents and flavours alike. Texture is somewhat waxy, the finish cool and firm, bright and zesty. Very enjoyable right now, a little lighter on in character, with lots of pleasing, cool and bright charisma.

The 2024 Springvale Riesling is lemony and tight in the mouth with layers of pith and pepper, citrus and grass. The phenolics are chalky and quite firm, and this stretches out the flavor over the finish. A superb wine, this is austere in its way but excellent nonetheless. It will take some time to open out; the fleshy fruit is there, but it's folded away for now.

Spicy, yeasty, grapefruit-pith, fresh and reserved aromas, bright and nascent, the palate soft and grapy, rounded and easygoing but somewhat short on drive. This is a baby and will be so much more interesting in a year or two, minimum. Plenty of potential.

No.2 Most Collected Riesling