Description
// Certified Organic & Biodynamic
"This is the fifteenth vintage of the 'European' style from the Grosset Rockwood Vineyard with its hard red rock and poor orange/red loam soil. This delivers impressive depth of flavour in the mid-palate, pronounced lime and lemony flavours that are intense and deep, finishing almost bone-dry with purity and finesse; same variety, yet a quite different and fascinating alternative to Grosset Polish Hill." - Winemaker Notes
"Floral/gardenia and jasmine traces on the bouquet, which is clean and fresh and lovely. The palate is soft and fruity with perhaps a faint dab of sweetnes that leavens the acidity and any sense of austerity, rendering the wine very approachable already and quite delicious in its extreme youth. Great balance and mouth-feel. Superb riesling, already drinking well." - 95 Points, Huon Hooke, The Real Review
"Grosset’s Alea Riesling is a super wine nowadays. It’s touched by sweetness and it has an associated grapey aspect, but there are dramatic mineral and tonic characters in the mix now too, and more kick to the finish than ever. Alea Riesling now keeps some of its affability up its sleeve, and it does because it’s busy kicking rocks of quartz down the palate road. Just-sweet apple and citrus flavours pop throughout but it’s the extras that really excite. I don’t roll out the “best ever” slogan very often but I think that this is the best Grosset Alea of the 12 or so vintages that I’ve tasted." - 95 Points, Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
