Kilikanoon Morts Block Riesling 2023

Kilikanoon Morts Block Riesling 2023

This is also brooding and reticent with an intensely earthy nose of both red and dark pinot fruit that is trimmed in hints of game

This is a bouquet that demands attention and in this blind tasting

A pretty and well-layered blend of both red and black pinot fruit is liberally laced with earth

There is superb richness to the voluminous

Perhaps the finest wine yet made at Blankiet is the spectacular 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon Paradise Hills Vineyard

all wrapped in bitter cherry pit-inflected

orange pekoe tea and plenty of earth

remarkably youthful wine is still not fully mature

The ripeness carries over to the dense

This is a big wine even by the outsized standards of a great Clos de la Roche yet the balance is faultless

which is more delicate than powerful

with some 35% of the volume in barrique