5 in 5: Clare + Eden Valley Rieslings

Australia makes excellent, high quality Riesling, and unsurprisingly offers significant diversity across the country from the Great Southern in Western Australia, heading east across the mainland, ending in Tasmania and many places in between. Here, I drill down into two regions in South Australia: two distinct regions with vast stylistic differences, Eden Valley (part of the Barossa Zone), and Clare Valley approximately 120kms to the north. I shot this video after tasting nearly 60 Rieslings from South Australia earlier that day for a report I was building for RobertParker.com, and these were five that stood on the shoulders of the rest for their execution and precision to site and grape. The wines I open are:
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0:00 - Intro
0:30 - 2021 Rieslingfreak No. 12, (Flaxman Valley) Eden Valley
2:21 - 2021 Jim Barry Florita Riesling, (Watervale) Clare Valley
4:13 - 2021 Pewsey Vale Riesling, Eden Valley
5:02 - 2021 Mesh Riesling, Eden Valley
6:19 - 2015 Mesh Museum Release Riesling, Eden Valley

A full report containing tasting notes for these wines, and all the others tasted that day (Chardonnays, too), on RobertParker.com.
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