The latest – utterly delicious – Australian spirit to pass my lips is Grosset45. It was made by Clare Valley winemaker Jeff Grosset, famous for his Polish Hill and Springvale rieslings, and is a pure, fragrant, very fine, slightly opalescent eau-de-vie-like spirit distilled from – you guessed it – riesling.
…The trick, Grosset realised, was to start with the best wine possible, and to ensure it had no sulphur dioxide preservative added to it, as the sulphur results in course flavours. “It’s like cooking when you think about it’” he says. “The better quality of the raw ingredients, the better the outcome at the end of the process.”
…The spirit will also feature at Rockpool restaurants: bar manager Ryan Gavin has been busy creating a sophisticated cocktail called Adonis that blends Grosset45 with dry manzanilla sherry and a host of other flavours such as verjuice, honey and juniper.
…”It’s all been a hoot and we’ve learned a lot,” he says. “But we’ve also done it as a way of broadening the image of Riesling, and helping people appreciated it more.”
See the full article at the following link – http://www.theaustralian.com.au/executive-living/food-drink/winemaker-jeff-grosset-embraces-spirit-of-innovation-with-grosset-45/story-fn845mx8-1227209653189
