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Grosset Noble Riesling gets 96 points from Halliday

James Halliday has reviewed the Noble Riesling in his latest Wine Companion newsletter – giving the botrytis riesling a score of 96 points!

Focusing on the Clare Valley, in his introduction Halliday says ‘…The 2011 vintage was a freak occurrence, enabling Jeffrey Grosset to produce a noble (botrytis) riesling; normally, off-dry to sweet rieslings from the Clare Valley are made from cane-cut (partially dried) grapes, and stopping the fermentation with significant residual sugar.

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http://www.winecompanion.com.au/

WBM – Wines of the Year 2011

Grosset’s Polish Hill Riesling 2011, Springvale Riesling 2011 and Off-dry Riesling 2011 have all made the Wines of the Year 2011 list in the January/February issue of WBM magazine.

Polish Hill scored an impressive 96 points! With both the Springvale and Off-dry receiving scores of 95 points. A great result from the 2011 vintage!

John Fordham ‘Good Drinking’

In the Dec/Jan 2012 edition of Highlife Magazine, John Fordham chats to Jeffrey Grosset about his influences and where his obsession with riesling came from.

“The Clare Valley’s Jeffrey Grosset is the uncrowned king of Australian riesling, our most under-rated white varietal wine for reasons that entirely escape me...read more

http://www.highlifemagazine.com.au

Grosset Polish Hill 2011 achieves highest riesling ranking in Halliday’s Top 100!

In further acknowledgement of the outstanding quality achieved by Grosset Wines from the 2011 vintage, James Halliday has awarded his highest riesling score of 97 points, announced in the Weekend Australian, 19 – 20 November.

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Jeffrey Grosset was one of the first to announce he was thrilled by the quality of his rieslings in 2011. Light straw-green; a gently floral, perfumed bouquet is followed by a palate of great purity, with lime juice, and a hint of tropical fruit; the sheer intensity and extreme length is awesome, the after-palate persisting for what seems an eternity thanks to its core of minerality.

Grosset Wines also features in what James describes as ‘The most unlucky misses’ but both with scores definitely worth mentioning!

-          Semillon Sauvignon Blanc 2011 – 95 points

-          Pinot Noir 2009 – 96 points

 The Weekend Australian, 19 – 20 November 2011 and James Halliday ‘Wine Companion’ website

www.winecompanion.com.au

Grosset Polish Hill 2011 awarded ‘Best Riesling’ again!

Grosset Polish Hill 2011 awarded ‘Best Riesling’ at The Age/Sydney Morning Herald Good Wine Guide Awards 2012.

The award was presented by Good Wine Guide author Nick Stock on Monday, 10 October 2011.

With a score of 97 points, Nick commented on the significance of the wine being from the 2011 vintage ”Jeffrey Grosset called it very early when he crowed about the quality of the 2011 rieslings amid the rain-sodden tail end of the 2011 of the South Australian harvest but he wasn’t kidding. The best perhaps since 2005!

This is the second year in a row Grosset’s Polish Hill has won this esteemed award!

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Max Allen – Truth is in the bottle

Weekend APLUS Magazine, The Weekend Australian, September 24-25 2011

…Forget back labels, forget spin. The only truth is in the bottle. And the truth for me, after tasting many new-release 2011s, is that some makers did manage, through careful viticulture and selection, to produce cracking wines.Riesling appears to have fared particularly well. I’ve tasted delicious examples from the Clare Valley…

Jeff Grosset’s Springvale and Polish Hill rieslings are taut and nervy expression of their usual selves – the former more up-front and grapefruity, the latter more steely, cautious and intense…

Australian Wine Trade Africa Famine Response

Responding to an initiative in August, by respected wine writer Tyson Stelzer to raise funds and increase the awareness of this crisis, Grosset Wines made a pledge to help. The funds we raised were to be settled by this Christmas. In order to take advantage of the Federal Governments limited offer to match donations dollar for dollar, the full donation has now been made.

See philanthropy for more information

Sarah Ahmed interviews Jeffrey Grosset about 2011 releases

21 September, The Wine Detective  “Jeffrey Grosset… with 100% botrytis infection in one vineyard parcel, made “a Trockenbeerenauslese from Australia.” It’s his 5th noble late harvest Riesling in 31 years and, with just 500 cases, Grosset’s loyal cellar door following will make light work of it!

As for Grosset’s renowned dry single vineyard Rieslings, Polish Hill and Springvale Watervale, in a vintage he describes as “a wonderful year…with all the benefit of moderate weather,” they are magnificently concentrated. Tensile and muscular, they’re seemingly charged to the gills with minerality and dry extract.

Covering lots of ground in his nine minute interview, Grosset touches on weather cycles (he believes 2011 marks “a natural swing in weather back into a cool cycle,” like the 1980s), the benefits in 2011 of “managing the vineyards on a European approach” and, turning to the bigger picture, the need for Australia to focus on making “wines that reflect place and at least the variety.”

Click here to watch the interview with Jeffrey. You can also view Sarah’s notes on the 2011 Rieslings, plus current releases from previous vintages on each wine review page.