Vickery Wines is the culmination of John Vickery's half-century of winemaking experience, partnered alongside family friend and talented winemaker Phil Lehmann. Together they create Rieslings that showcase John's extensive expertise with the most noble of white wine varieties.
The Eden Valley lies at an altitude of approximately 500 meters, typically producing more delicate Rieslings that tend to display more rose petal, green apple and spice characteristics with mineral acidity.
Vickery Eden Valley Riesling
A very successful growing season: reasonable winter rainfall filled the soil profile for good budburst and canopy development, leading in to a dry spring and summer. As with the 2015 vintage, grapes were sourced from two of the Zander family sites located in the Flaxman’s Valley area of Eden Valley. Both the Kosiand Quarry blocks are low-yielding and produce fruit with intensity of flavour and lovely natural acidity.
The 2022 blend also saw the addition of fruit from both the Mason and Riley family vineyards. These vineyards are home to fifteen, and seventeen, year-old-vines respectively, and produce fruit with lovely purity and excellent structure – features essential for John Vickery!
Following picking, in the third week of March, the grapes were pressed and fermented at our nearby Barossa winery, with great emphasis on limited skin contact. Each parcel of fruit was kept separate until the final assemblage where only the very best components were selected for the 2017 EV Riesling.
Tasting Notes
Colour: Pale green-gold straw
Aroma: Fragrant – green limes and grapefruit, mineral and ethereal, fresh spring water cleanliness.
Palate: Lovely bright flavours; fresh lime juice, sherbet but with terrific focus and bright minerality to the flavours. A long, fresh palate.
Food Match: Perfect with fresh prawns and Coffin Bay oysters
Cellaring: A Riesling with beautiful purity and prettiness in youth, though promises to be a wonderful wine to age - 10+ years.
