Grosset Alea Clare Valley Riesling 2022

Grosset Alea Clare Valley Riesling

Region: Clare Valley, Australia

Vintage: 2022

Bottle size: 75cl

Grape: Riesling

ABV: 12.5%

Pale in colour, the nose boasts pristine lemon and blossom aromas. There is a bracing acidity balanced by a hint of sweetness, which carries a pronounced ripe citrus character with a hint of honey. Richness on the mid-palate leads to a long, chalky finish.

The Alea Riesling comes from a narrow corridor of hard red rock with poor, orangey, red loam topsoil in the Grosset Rockwood Vineyard at Watervale. As the early fruit from the vineyard reminded Jeff of the great German Rieslings, he decided to take a very different approach to the creation of Alea. The aim was to make a wine generous, succulent and long. While the Grosset Springvale vineyard is a soft rock site of red loam over limestone, 'Alea' is a hard rock site and the wines are distinctly different.

Jeffrey Grosset’s love of Riesling began at 15 when his father came home with a bottle to share with the family. This bottle was enough to inspire a young Jeffrey to enrol in the local agricultural college and complete qualifications in both Agriculture and Oenology by the age of 21. After honing his craft in Australia and Germany, he bought an old milk depot in the Clare Valley town of Auburn, founding his eponymous winery in 1981. Since then, through great skill and exceptional vineyard management, this old milk depot has been transformed into one of Australia’s finest wineries.

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