TWR / Te Whare Ra Riesling M 2020

Description

The TWR Riesling M 2020 has great depth of flavour and fleshiness with purity of fruit, bright aromatics and juicy acidity thanks to what TWR describe as a “Goldilock’s vintage – not too hot, not too cold, just right!” As always, inspired by the Mosel’s great Rieslings, this wine is fragrant with delicate floral, citrus, white nectarine and mineral aromas. The fruit and mineral aromas carry through to the palate and there is a lime zestiness which with the racy acidity cuts into any sweetness making this a very refeshing medium-dry Riesling. It’s produced organically and bio-dynamically and like all the TWR wines that I stock, it is suitable for vegans and vegetarians.

TWR owners and winemakers, Anna and Jason Flowerday, thought that their old block Riesling vines, planted in 1979 and the oldest Riesling vines in Marlborough, would be the perfect match with the Marlborough climate and terroir. As they say “Our passion for making and drinking Riesling is based partly on the wide variety of styles that this variety is capable of producing… We are enamoured by the general characteristics of all great Riesling wines: purity, elegance and age-ability and feel that the growing conditions here in Marlborough allow Riesling to produce at its best… high sunshine hours mean that we are able to achieve ripe, fruit concentration and the cooler night time temperatures mean that we retain the natural acidity that is the hallmark of this noble variety… We love the knife edge of tension in this style of wine – the perfect balance between the initial sweetness of the fruit and the lingering, chalky acidity.”