Frankland Estate Isolation Ridge Riesling 2022 (12 Bottles) Frankland River, Australia

by CellarHand

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Frankland Estate Isolation Ridge Riesling is 100% from the family’s certified-organic vineyard in Frankland River.
The 2021 harvest will be remembered for the perfect spring conditions leading into the ripening period. With the return to a “normal” picking date (starting on 19th March), we harvested excellent white grapes – gratefully accepting generous cropping levels after two small vintages in 2019 and 2020. With bunch sizes and volumes back to normal levels we saw ripening slowly evolve and build some wonderful fruit flavour and concentration. Thus it’s a very exciting release.
With the vines now 33 years old and with our 13th certified-organic vintage under our belt, we continue to see the subtle evolution of Isolation Ridge Vineyard with ever-increasing clarity of site pushing to the foreground. This is helped no doubt by our confidence that doing the absolute minimum of intervention in the Isolation Ridge Vineyard will, while expressing any given vintage, reflect typicity of site.
In the winery we do small ferments (many are 1,000 litres or less) with an increasing focus on indigenous yeast and barrel ferment, combined with extended lees maturation on all parcels through to November. These numerous small ferments allow complexity in the resulting wine through the diversity of yeasts, ferments and maturation vessels. We bottled the wine in mid-December and allowed it time in bottle until release in May 2022.

Sandalwood, preserved citrus, black tea leaves and jasmine seamlessly merge into the more expected Frankland River Riesling characters of lemon zest, green apple skins and chalk. In the mouth, the acidity is like a coiled spring, cushioned by voluminous fruit padding on all sides. This is svelte and streamlined, but it has presence and viscosity, too. There is subtle structural integrity and a spool of lingering flavour through the finish … what a superb wine. This is generous, but it’s tense and taut too… disguised austerity. Slatey.

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About Frankland Estate

Frankland Estate is a second-generation winery run by brother and sister Hunter and Elizabeth Smith, with Elizabeth’s husband Brian Kent at the winemaking helm since 2010.

Our upbringing on Isolation Ridge gives incredible collective insight into the wines as they make their way from vine to barrel, bottle to glass. We are free to offer opinions and challenge convention, which is vital when you strive to make the best of what you have. We owe an enormous debt to our parents, Judi Cullam and the late Barrie Smith, for their faith and vision in planting vines on Isolation Ridge way back in 1988. They set the tone for the integrity, character and respect for place that are at the heart of all we do.

We live on this land, and this entails all sorts of privileges, benefits and responsibilities. Raising a family here is just one reason to maintain this natural haven. We will pass on this land in even better condition than we found it. Not only that, but in order to oversee the natural balance of the vines – to pay attention to their needs so they yield the most impeccable fruit – you need to be immersed in them, as deeply and constantly as possible. This is the only way to see a simple and seamless transition from beautiful fruit to beautiful wine. The past decade has seen a host of those small, patient, painstaking tweaks in the vineyard and winery that, we hope, make Frankland Estate inimitable and unmissable.

CellarHand

CellarHand is a fine-wine importer and wholesale distributor, with a portfolio featuring some of the most sought-after estates of Germany, Austria, France and Italy, as well some of the greatest producers from Australia and New Zealand. Our ethos has always been to build a portfolio as you’d construct the perfect wine list. We work with small, family producers who express the best of their regions. The wines we sell are the wines we enjoy, and the people who make them are like family to us. They are wines that taste of where they come from, and though they’re steeped in history and stamped with the signature of their terroir, they’re more than ever relevant – and desirable – to the Australian diner of today.

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