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2021

‘Outlaw’

Riesling   |   Barossa Valley - Australia
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About

There is a good deal of old-vine Barossa Riesling, but that doesn’t mean the resulting wines can bear that legacy.  Too often they are simple, round, often flabby, and lack vivacity.  Koen was determined to break that mold when he fell into this 80+-year-old vine block on the valley floor just outside of Tanunda.  The farm is fully sustainable and farming organically with certification just a year or two away.  Naturally Koen didn’t want to make your typical Riesling but did want to showcase the beautiful fruit, so he fermented it on skins for a full day and really pulled some incredible texture and a bit of phenolic grip out of it.  ‘Outlaw’?  Because this was the outlier of the regional typicity for him, though let’s be honest…most of his wines do that!

The fruit was hand-harvested in mid-February and fully destemmed and lightly crushed.  The berries sat in their juice for a full 24-hours prior to being lightly pressed to old 500L French puncheons for aging on gross lees.  After five months the wine was racked to stainless-steel to naturally settle for a month prior to being bottled without fining, filtration, or any addition of sulfur.

Stats

  • Grapes: 100% Riesling
  • Vineyard: Maggie Vineyard (Tanunda)
  • Vine Age: 85-years-old
  • Soil Type: Sand and clay over yellow loam
  • Viticulture: Sustainable - practicing organic
  • Fermentation: Native – neutral 500L French puncheon (100% destemmed)
  • Skin Contact: 24 hours (stainless-steel)
  • Aging: 5 months in neutral 500L French puncheons
  • Alcohol: 10.7%
  • Residual Sugar: .05 g/L
  • pH: 3.27
  • Total Acidity: 6 g/L
  • Total SO2: 4 ppm
  • Total Production: 108 cases

Tasting Note

More fruit driven nose and mouth than traditionally is found in Barossa Riesling. Impressed how the wine offers more structure and complexity in mouth. Lifted nose with nashi pear, soft appley notes and wafts off lemon pith and white pepper. Light structured mouth, fully supported by soft gentle acidity

Press & Reviews

The Wine Front

93

"Older vineyard nearing 100 years of age, a day on skins, off to old oak and left on lees. Good formula. Shiny golden colour, lots of honey apple, oyster shell, salt mineral notes, nectarine. Bright and tasty to taste. How good is tasty tastes? Lightly creamy texture then a fuzz of chalkiness rolls through. Minerally and exciting in its saline, lingering finish. Delightful, detailed, fresh and complex white."
- Mike Bennie

Vinous

91

"Translucent yellow. Fresh pear and peach aromas show very good clarity, and a lively suggestion of orange zest adds vibrant lift. Well-concentrated and seamless in texture, offering sappy orchard and pit fruit flavors plus a hint of fresh fig. Finishes juicy and long, with a floral note coming in late."
- Josh Raynolds

Producer


Bink Wines

Region


Barossa Valley

Country


Australia

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