Riesling Bannockburn 2024

FELTON ROAD

Riesling Bannockburn
2024

  • Organic
  • Biodynamic
Country
New Zealand
Regulated designation
Table wine
Region
South Island
Subregion
Central Otago
Varietal(s)
Riesling 100 %
Colour
White
Sugar
Semi-dry
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About this winery

Felton Road is an astonishing overnight success story. In just over 20 years Felton Road has become the global benchmark for New World pinot noir and has played a massive role in making Central Otago a new buzzword in the world of wine. Felton Road winemaker Blair Walter is an exceptional character, blessed equally with intellectual brilliance and extreme modesty. He is a captivating and insightful speaker, with the special ability to articulate complex ideas in such a way that they are made to...

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Press reviews

James Halliday (Australian Wine Companion)

- 95 points -

September 2024 (Vintage 2023)

The dance between high tensile focus and fruit concentration is done beautifully here. Minerality and cadence is a leitmotif with this wine. Notes of white peach, lime, grapefruit, crushed river-stone, lemongrass, lemon barley water, Christmas lily and lime cordial. There's a wonderful tubular palate shape, the flavours pulling across the tongue at pace, before coalescing and flowing seamlessly off into the distance, dry and slatey. Just lovely.

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James Suckling

- 94 points -

December 2020 (Vintage 2020)

There are aromas of lime pie and some light fresh herbs, as well as white peach and pastry. The palate has impressive concentration and deep-set lime and sweet apple flavors. Treads the off-dry line nicely. Super fresh, pithy resolve. From biodynamically grown grapes.

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Vinous

- 93 points -

November 2020 (Vintage 2020)

Generous and tender with its delicate nose of white talc, nectarine and red apple fruit. It is pure and offers excellent clarity. Medium-sweet in style (56g/L), it has a line of acidity that acts like a claw holding the wine together. Seductive and structural with a lengthy finish; open this at breakfast and it’ll be gone before coffee break.

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James Suckling

- 92 points -

November 2023 (Vintage 2023)

Fresh and fruity with melon and yellow plum aromas and flavors with some sliced cooked apple. Sweet pears. Medium-bodied, off dry and a fruity finish. From biodynamically grown grapes with Demeter certification.

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