Tasting Notes:
Colour: Light yellow/green.
Bouquet: Abounds on the nose with aromas of ripe lemon and limes.
Palate: The palate is mouth-filling, crisp and lively with excellent depth of minerally lime flavours and well balanced acidity.

Cellaring:
This Riesling can be drunk now, while fresh and young, although it is well worth cellaring as it will continue to develop in the bottle for 8-15 years.

The Vines:
A 2.6 ha block of the Jacksons Road property of Riverby Estate was planted with Riesling (clone Gm239) in 1994. The rows are aligned North-South and the vines are trained to the Mid-Height Sylvoz trellis system. Together with vine trimming and leaf plucking during the growing season, an open grapevine canopy is created to allow ample sunlight and wind penetration. The cropping level was maintained at 2.8 tonnes/acre to ensure maximum flavours.

Harvest:
Date: 2nd & 11th April 2001
Brix: 22.4
Total Acid: 9.1g/l
pH: 3.02

Vinification:
The grapes were machine harvested in the cool of the night, de-stemmed and crushed with minimal skin contact. The lightly pressed juice was inoculated with a neutral yeast strain (SIHA-Riesling Yeast 7) in a stainless steel tank. The fermentation temperature was maintained between 12-14°C. At all times during vinification antioxidative handling was used to retain the fresh fruit flavours.