Mt Difficulty Bannockburn Target Riesling Medium 2025
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Tasting Notes
Mt Difficulty Bannockburn Target Riesling Medium 2025 is bursting with lime, basil, jasmine and crisp green apple. Bright grapefruit and lime drive the palate, with a vibrant push-pull of sweetness and acidity. Finishes long and refreshing with cool, tonic-like minerality.
CELLARING POTENTIAL
Mt Difficulty Target 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
Target Riesling is a style crafted to balance residual sugar in perfect harmony with the wine’s natural acidity. The fruit was hand harvested on the 13th April and whole bunch pressed. The fruit was processed in a reductive manner, with the juice settled for a week prior to being racked clean. This gave us time to brew an indigenous starter culture. The wine was fermented cool with indigenous yeast, to help maximise varietal character. The ferment was monitored closely until the perfect balance between acidity and residual sugar was reached. The wine was then sulphured, chilled and left on lees for 4 months.
Alc 11% T/A 9.4gL-1 pH 3.39 Residual Sugar 35 g/L