Mt Difficulty Bannockburn Dry Riesling 2025

Description

Dry, Grapefruit, Lemon

Golden straw in colour. Intense lemon and grapefruit zest on the nose, layered with wet slate minerality. Powerful mid-palate weight from egg fermentation, with concentrated yellow citrus and a core of chalky texture. Finishes long and slatey. Built for food now or cellaring to reveal more depth. This wine will age gracefully for a further 15 ears given optimal cellaring conditions.

The grapes for the wines that carry the Mt Difficulty Bannockburn label are subject to two strict criteria: they are managed under the umbrella of the Mt Difficulty viticultural team and must be sourced from vineyards situated in a very specific area - the south side of the Kawarau River at Bannockburn. The fruit for this Riesling comes from a blend of our Rina Rose and Templars Hill vineyard which consists of Lochar top soil over fine to moderately coarse gravels.

Our Dry Riesling attempts to balance flavour and palate weight with the wine’s natural acidity. Hand picked fruit was brought into the winery during the cool morning. Half the fruit was crushed and pressed to extract flavour and texuture, while a smaller portion was whole bunch pressed to retain acidity. After settling the juices were blended, with half heading to tank for inoculated ferment, while the other half was wild fermented in a concrete egg. Once balance was reached with sugar, the wine was chilled to stop fermentation. It was bottled after 3 months on lees.