Mt Difficulty Bannockburn Dry Riesling 2025
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Tasting Notes
Mt Difficulty Bannockburn Dry Riesling 2025 is 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.
CELLARING POTENTIAL
Mt Difficulty Dry Riesling will improve for 15 years given optimal cellaring conditions.
Vintage Notes
VINTAGE 2025
The 2025 season continued Central Otago's run of warm, fruitful vintages. A severe November frost reduced yields in some areas but most vineyards met or nearly met target tonnage. Warm. sunny conditions with above-average night temperatures accelerated acidity drop, allowing earlier harvests once flavours were ripe. A notably dry season kept disease pressure very low. The resulting wines show lovely weight, concentrated fruit and fine, silky tannins, even in their youth.
WINEMAKING CONSIDERATIONS:
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.
Alc. 13% TA 7.3g/L pH 3.06 Residual Sugar 4.90gL
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