Awards, Ratings & Reviews
98/100 — James Halliday, Weekend Australian Magazine · 2023 Vintage
“The cool, late vintage and reduced yield come together in a glorious riesling that is so delicious now it will be hard to give it the 10 or so years that will see it develop even more ravishing flavours and a lingering caress of silvery acidity.”
97/100 — Erin Larkin, The Wine Advocate · 2023 Vintage · Tasted: Nov 2023 · Drinking Window: 2023–2043
“The 2023 Polish Hill Riesling is utterly superb. It has the flesh and body that only the Clare can deliver; it is shaped by coiled acidity, and it ripples through the finish with unfettered fruit power. It's a glorious thing, this wine. It's looking precise, focused and floral through the lens of the 2023 season.”
97/100 — Rob Geddes MW, Vol. 107 · 2023 Vintage · Nov 2023
“Polish Hill is the counterpoint to Spring Vale, where Watervale's lavish jonquil floral rose florals are countered with tense varietal purity of lime and lime blossom aromas and depth. Springvale has a remarkable ginger spice, a feature of the 23 vintage and is also recommended. The Polish Hill v23 wine has minerality and line typical of the region with excellent texture, flavour length, fruit weight and generosity with lavish fruit yet still focused and long with delicious flavour intensity and a slight firmness that augurs well for a long life.”
96/100 — Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front · 2023 Vintage · Tasted: Aug 2023
“Grosset’s Polish Hill is renowned for its reserve, particularly on release, but this rendition has both its quality and its fruit intensity sitting front and centre. This really does announce itself. Flavours of lemon, lime, grapefruit, chalk and citrus blossom explode onto the palate in the most commanding and authoritative of ways, and then extend (mighty) lengthily through the finish. It’s a lay down misére. It’s scented, intense and sustained. It’s a wine of great beauty.”
96/100 — Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion · 2023 Vintage · Sep 2023
“An outstanding release of this vaunted wine. It's intense, it's racy, it's complex and nuanced in its fruit, spice, mineral and subtle savoury elements, all of it woven into an extremely persistent and poised textural experience. There's stacks of flavour in all this, yet held within a tensile thrust of raciness and faint chalky pucker. And long, very long. One for the ages here.”
96/100 — Christina Pickard, Wine Enthusiast · 2023 Vintage · Tasted: Jul 2024
“2023 was a cool, late-ripening vintage in the Clare and the resulting wines are elegant and filigreed—approachable now, but with the structure and complexity to age for decades. Delicate aromas of lemon-lime, peach blossom, beeswax and lavender soap open. Like a soft hold of the hand, they lead gently to a pristine palate that's dry with high-toned fruit and prickly acidity. Texturally it feels both lightly creamy and chalky all at once.”
Halliday's Top 100 – Weekend Australian Magazine
“One of five Australian Rieslings listed (and one of just two from the Clare Valley), James Halliday has described this wine as ‘irresistible’!”
Top 50 Australia's Most Collected Wines 2023 – Wine Ark
#1 Most Collected Riesling
Wines of Australia 2023 Top 100 – jamessuckling.com
No.43
About This Wine
Produced from riesling grown at the Grosset Polish Hill Vineyard, an A-Grade Certified Organic and Biodynamic (ACO) vineyard.
The 2023 release displays floral aromas with hints of lime juice and beeswax, while white flowers dominate the bouquet.
On the palate it is tight, fine and intense, with a pure thread of lime juice at its core, depth of flavour and intensity in its infancy.
Jeffrey Grosset notes that the wine can be cellared for up to 25 years or enjoyed now.
Release: September 1st, 2023.
Producer Notes
This surprises with its almost riotous aromatics. Delightful floral aromas with hints of lime juice and beeswax – though it’s white flowers that dominate. It’s almost joyful or playful. On the palate, tight, fine and intense; a pure and unevolved thread of lime juice at its core. It has depth of flavour and intensity in its infancy with the suggestion that these will become hallmarks of the aged wine. And the aromatics!
Cellar? ‘As long as you like’ says Jeff – up to 25 years, or drink now.
Unfined – vegan and vegetarian friendly.
Specifications
- Vintage: 2023
- Grape Variety: Riesling
- Region: Clare Valley / South Australia / Australia
- Production Attributes: Certified Organic, Biodynamic, Unfined
- Alcohol: 12.9%
- Sweetness: Dry
- Drinking Window: 2023–2043
