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Description
Watervale is one of the marquee Riesling sub-regions of the Clare Valley. It's a region known for its elite fruit purity, particularly in Riesling.
This Riesling from Stephanie Toole at Mount Horrocks typifies this wine style. This organically grown fruit is some of the best the region has to offer and is consistently ranked amongst the top echelon of Australian Riesling.
It's a blistering wine, built as much for longevity as excellent drinking in its youth. Impeccable Clare Valley Riesling at its most pure and refined.
A Riesling purist's dream.
96 Points
"Wow! What a gorgeous wine this is. The 2024 Watervale Riesling leads with lemon sherbet and scratched citrus peel, coiled saline acidity, white flowers, and chalk. It is long, fine, and lingering but also focused, precise, and authoritative. Mount Horrocks is a superb, high-quality producer in Watervale, and amongst those who know, winemaker/owner Stephanie Toole is a beacon for precise, attention-to-detail winemaking. Overlook at your own peril. This is a standout and pure pleasure to drink."
- Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)
95 Points
"Mount Horrocks Watervale Riesling 2024 is a banger. It tastes of slate, lime, chalk, and something more floral—pink and white flowers, like marshmallows in bloom. There’s good intensity to this wine, but it’s more about flow, feel, and length. Yes. Absolutely yes."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)
95 Points
"The cool 2024 season was particularly spectacular in the Clare Valley, translated impeccably by Stephanie Toole in a riesling of pristine purity, deep concentration, and profound endurance. Pitch-perfect granny smith apple and lime build a palate of considerable presence, traced with natural acidity of heightened cut and tension."
- Tyson Stelzer (October 2024)
94 Points
"Delicate reserved fragrance of powder-puff talcum, pastry/doughy, chalky, floral, and subtly yeasty in its infancy. There’s a definite salty mineral savoriness that lingers long on the finish."
- Huon Hooke (The Real Review)
