Pressing Matters “R69” Riesling 2020 (6 Bottles) Coal River Valley, Tasmania

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A beautiful, candied nose: spearmint jubes and lemon drops. Pale green gold. Juicy, though very clean and vibrant, and finishing with refreshing acid.

After selective picking, the fruit is gently bag pressed and cold settled for 48 hours. Post racking, the juice is inoculated with a neutral yeast and fermented at cool temperatures for around three weeks.

After the ferment has been stopped at the required sugar level, the wine spends around 6-8 weeks on lees before being prepared for bottling.

After another dry winter in Southern Tasmania, budburst commenced around the middle of September.

Relentlessly windy and cold conditions over spring and through to summer saw delayed shoot growth and a challenging flowering period.

The end result—open canopies and lower-than-average yields—allayed much of the handwork we do in the vineyard in a normal season. Every month of the growing season over 2019 and 2020 had lower-than-average temperatures except January, which was average.

The cooler year, lower yields and open canopies delivered fruit with great intensity and driving acidity.

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“Greg Melick has turned his attention to grapegrowing and winemaking, planting 2.9ha of riesling at his vineyard in the Coal River Valley. It is a perfect north- facing slope, and the Mosel- style Rieslings are sweeping all before them. His multi- clone 4.2ha pinot noir block is also striking gold”.
JAMES HALLIDAY

Pressing Matters was also awarded the ‘Most Successful Tasmanian Exhibitor’ at the recent Royal Hobart Wine Show with the current release Pinot Noir earning a Gold.

“With a light yellow-green hue, this lovely wine has spice, honey, vanilla nuances adding to its lemon-citrus bouquet. Juicy fruit and subtle sweetness are superbly balanced. It’s delicious now but will blossom given more time. It won two trophies including reserve champion wine of show, 2020 Tasmanian Wine Show.”

96/100 -Huon Hooke, The Real Review, 16 Jan 2020 “The pristine, fresh acidity is a given, and rather than merely sweetness from the 69g/l residual sugar, it has morphed this wine altogether, adding layers of flavour. Preserved ginger and oranges, lemon balm infused tea and cardamom rally together on the long finish. Beautiful balance.”

95 points – Gold – Jane Faulkner, Australian Wine Companion, 01 August 2018

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