Eliza Riesling 2024
It's fabulously fruited and elegantly fragrant on the nose, showing white flesh peach, orange zest, lime peel, and white floral aromas, followed by a succulent palate offering excellent concentration and fine flow. Beautifully textured with attractive sweetness and finely pitched acidity, making it wonderfully harmonious and balanced with a prolonged, delicious finish. Style: Medium. At its best: now to 2036. ***** 96/100
Sam Kim. Wine Orbit February 2025
Buy a case (12 bottles) to get 12% discount - If you would like to organise a mixed case please email kevin@riverbyestate.com and we can put together a special order.
It's fabulously fruited and elegantly fragrant on the nose, showing white flesh peach, orange zest, lime peel, and white floral aromas, followed by a succulent palate offering excellent concentration and fine flow. Beautifully textured with attractive sweetness and finely pitched acidity, making it wonderfully harmonious and balanced with a prolonged, delicious finish. Style: Medium. At its best: now to 2036. ***** 96/100
Sam Kim. Wine Orbit February 2025
Buy a case (12 bottles) to get 12% discount - If you would like to organise a mixed case please email kevin@riverbyestate.com and we can put together a special order.
It's fabulously fruited and elegantly fragrant on the nose, showing white flesh peach, orange zest, lime peel, and white floral aromas, followed by a succulent palate offering excellent concentration and fine flow. Beautifully textured with attractive sweetness and finely pitched acidity, making it wonderfully harmonious and balanced with a prolonged, delicious finish. Style: Medium. At its best: now to 2036. ***** 96/100
Sam Kim. Wine Orbit February 2025
Buy a case (12 bottles) to get 12% discount - If you would like to organise a mixed case please email kevin@riverbyestate.com and we can put together a special order.
2024 was a brilliant vintage in Marlborough in terms of quality, not so good in terms of quantity. Mixed weather in the spring of 2023 resulted in a poor flowering and consequently low yields, down almost 40% on average across most of our varieties. Thereafter however the weather was perfect with several very hot days and crucially, later in the season, cool nights. This meant the low cropping fruit ripened perfectly and there was absolutely no disease pressure. It also meant we had one of our earliest ever harvests for most varieties, but the grapes for this sweeter wine were left out longer to attain optimal ripeness. They were eventually picked on 3 April 2024. This wine was handled in stainless steel throughout and was bottled on 6 November 2024
Pale straw/lemon in colour, it has an enticing nose of stone-fruits, especially peach and nectarine, with passionfruit, pineapple, honeysuckle and white garden florals. The palate is luscious with spicy citrus characters, lime and mandarin, peach and nectarine stone fruits and crisp red apples. It is a beautifully integrated and attractive wine, light and juicy with a perfect balance of acid and sweetness. This elegant wine has a long, lingering refreshing finish. It promises to age gracefully for many years but is already drinking beautifully.
Technical Notes
Alcohol: 10.1%, Acidity: 7.85, PH: 2.92, Residual Sugar: 45 g/l.
Reviews
Already delicious, the 2024 vintage (*****) was estate-grown in the Wairau Valley and picked from vines planted in 1990. Rich and sweetish (45 grams/litre of residual sugar), it has a lovely array of flavours - peach, pear, ginger and a hint of honey - revealing impressive vibrancy, depth and harmony. *****
Michael Cooper April 2025
I loved this vintage of Riverby's off-dry Riesling that sits somewhere between the laser focus of the Mosel and lush texture of Alsace. A hypothetical fruit crossing peach and lime is joined by a classic beeswax note on the nose, the palate is gorgeously sweet and luscious, yet the roughening textural edge like peach skin and the ravishing acidity core like the crispiest apple extends the juicy finish. Fabulous stuff. 93/100
Tom Cannavan Wine-pages.com May 2025