Wine Reviews
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2023 Koerner Gullyview Riesling – 95 points – Mike Bennie (The WINEFRONT)
I like that various Koerner children get their birthdays noted on the front label of wines. Cute. Happy year one, Zoey Jane Koerner! This is an unfined and unfiltered riesling. A single vineyard wine; planted 1974. It delivers texture and interest well beyond most of the squarer, linear and lean...
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2023 Koerner Old Vine Riesling – 94 points – Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)
The 2023 Old Vine Riesling is from the Parish Vineyard in Clare Valley. On the nose, gentle tropical notions of pineapple and lychee mingle with green apple and pear, scratched lime pith and musk sticks. The wine is focused and powerful on the palate but not weighty or dense. It...
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2023 Koerner Gullyview Riesling – 93 points – Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)
The 2023 Gullyview Riesling hails from the Gullyview Vineyard in Clare Valley. Chalky and precise aromatically, the wine speaks of pear skins, green apple, jasmine flower and ocean spray. The wine is taut on the palate, and the acidity thrums within the confines of the fruit, which is fine and...
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2023 Koerner Rolle Vermentino – 93 points – Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)
The 2023 Rolle is salty and plump and a little chewy, with salted cashews, graphite, cold peach tea, apple skins and brine. It is texturally engaging, which makes it fun to drink, but it's also complex and lingering through the finish, which engages more than just the palate. It's a...
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2023 Koerner Watervale Riesling – 92 Points – Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)
The 2023 Watervale Gullyview & Parish Vineyards Riesling leads with lanolin and cheesecloth, scratched citrus and brine. In the mouth, the wine is plump and juicy but driven by edgy acidity. This is quite an exciting wine to drink; it feels textural and elemental and even a little primal. It's...
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2023 Koerner Pigato Vermentino – 92 Points – Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)
The 2023 Pigato is a skin-contact wine, and the bitterness of that component makes me smile as I taste it. There are notes of dehydrated orange peel, lemon and grapefruit, squeezed lime and sea salt—it's throwing salty Margherita vibes—plus jalapeño, coriander and white pepper. Bottled unfined and unfiltered, with 50...
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2023 Koerner Tiver Rose – 92 Points – Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)
The 2023 Tiver Rose of Vivian is a blend of Sangiovese and Sciacarello (a Corsican grape variety) grown in the Clare Valley. In the glass, the wine is not quite pink but more of a dirty flamingo blush, onion skin, etc., and in the mouth, it is a rich, complex,...
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2023 Koerner Watervale Riesling- 95 points - Mike Bennie review (The Winefront)
Brought to life through the Gullyview and Parish Vineyards of Clare Valley. Now in screwcap closure. A potency to this wine, texture and savoury elements with strong currency of green apple, tart lime and gingery spice woven through. A faint accord of hazelnut nuttiness, a lick of creaminess and yet...
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2023 Tiver Rose - 93 Points – Mike Bennie Review (The Winefront)
A blend of sangiovese and sciacarello from a single (Vivian) vineyard. We’re in rose land here. Fragrant with sour cherries, cranberry, rose hip tea, sweet spice, a lick of minty herbs too. Palate and bouquet send similar vibes. The palate is juicy, has a little tug of fine, lacy tannin...