2019 Astrolabe The Farm Dry Riesling

95 POINTS

Cameron Douglas MS

95 POINTS “OUTSTANDING” “Immediately enticing bouquet of lime and lemon, white flowers and white fleshed peach. On the palate - just dry with a whisper of residual sweetness which is hardly noticeable with the core of citrus and stnoe fruit flavours, acidity and mineral flint-like flavours. Very crisp and refreshing with a salivating saline effect leading to a dry finish. Delicious and drinkable from today with ideal drinking from 2024 through 2040.”

94 POINTS

Cameron Douglas MS

94 POINTS ”Apples and white roses, sweet lemon and fresh white peach tea. A fragrant and enticing bouquet. Aperitif style on the palate with a core of tree fruits and citrus flavours, high acidity and long intense finish. White apricot and green apple, honeysuckle, cold stone minerality and a hint of lees and gun flint. A lovely example with best drinking from 2022 through 2030+.” -

90 POINTS

Rebecca Gibb MW - Vinous

90 Points “Outstanding” “The 2020 Dry Riesling The Farm is unmistakably Riesling with its youthful, tangy green apple and lime citrus flavors. There’s no funny business here – just pure fruit, a sense of lime and a brimful of acidity. The fruit is pristine; only the free-run juice is here, meaning the cream of the crop. A little padding fleshes out the midpalate, ensuring that this is not just angular Riesling. Drinking window 2022-2029.” - MAR 22

Michael Cooper MW

4 STARS “Grown at Grovetown, in the Wairau Valley, the 2019 vintage (4*) is a single-vineyard wine, partly hand-picked. Bright, light lemon/green, it is medium-bodied, with fresh, citrusy, slightly appley flavours, showing good vigour and intensity, and a slightly off-dry (5.3 grams/litre of residual sugar), crisp finish. Best drinking 2023+.”