MOUNTADAM VINEYARDS EDEN VALLEY RIESLING

Tasting notes:

This Eden Valley Riesling is pale in colour with a green hue. The wine has lifted aromas of citrus blossom, lemon and jasmine flowers. An underlying dried herb character adds to the wines allure.

The palate shows all the hallmarks of an Eden Valley Riesling. It has lashings of lemon and lime juice characters throughout. More subtle characters of dried herbs and perfume add to the complexity of the wine. The wine builds in intensity and finishes with fresh natural acidity and typically Eden valley minerality.

About the producer:

Established in 1972 as one of Australia's pioneer Chardonnay producers, Mountadam was founded by the late David Wynn, without question one of the most significant contributors to the Australian wine industry and an important part of the Mountadam story.

Amongst his many achievements, David Wynn is credited with the invention of the wine cask; he founded Wynn's Coonawarra Estate and transformed Coonawarra reds during the 1960s and '70s.

In selecting the land for the Mountadam vineyard, Wynn was the first to recognise the potential of a cool, elevated site to produce wines of great elegance and structure, chosing an area high above the Eden Valley, which he named High Eden. At 550m above sea level, Mountadam is in fact the most elevated vineyard in South Australia.

Current owner David Brown bought the estate in 2006 and one of many significant investments included the instalment of Con Moshos as head winemaker, following a distinguished 23-year career making fine wines at Petaluma. The Eden Valley wines are gently made and lean towards cool climate, old world charm, the Barossa valley wines veer more towards new world generosity and roundness.