2009 MadFish Riesling Tasting Notes

A barely adequate winter in 2008 was followed by some wet spring weather in October which helped to keep soil profiles moist and reduce stress during flowering. A benign late spring and early summer allowed for even and clean fruit development and harvest of Riesling began in early March and finished in April.
 
The 2009 season has delivered us elegant and linear Riesling fruit flavour and is destined to become one of our finest of vintages for Riesling.

The fruit for our MadFish Riesling is sourced from a variety of vineyards through the subregions of Great Southern: Mount Barker, Frankland River and the Porongurups.
Mount Barker tends to provide fruit with a racy lime and lemon character overlayed with talc and bath salts. Frankland River provides a little more generosity and riper characters with a more perfumed nose and the Porongurups gives tight and elegant fruit with a wonderfully floral nose and mineral palate.

The wine is bright pale straw in colour with green hues. The nose is wonderfully aromatic showing lime skin and white citrus flower notes. The palate has an upfront burst of citrus juice and flowers leading to a tight and crisp mid-palate of great focus. A linear and long dry finish is complemented by a restrained floral character.

This wine will drink wonderfully from a very young age, but like all good Rieslings it will develop intriguing secondary characters as it ages, allowing for toasty flavours to compliment the primary fruit. Given correct storage this wine will reward cellaring for two to four years.