2024 Jim Barry The Florita Riesling 375ml

96 POINTS

Mike Bennie - Halliday Wine Companion

A stupendous riesling of immense regional character and yet flair, personality and precision as calling cards. Pretty lavender and chamomile floral lift, sleek and racy lime juice characters spiked with lemongrass, gingery spice, pepper and some wet slate minerality with accompanying textural grip. Finesse personified with energy to burn. Vivid, scintillating riesling.

96 POINTS

James Suckling

Finely constructed with such purity and complexity, showing aromas of kaffir limes, struck match, white flowers, lemon peel and slate. The palate has very high energy and tension with a driving acidity and powerful undertone that will unravel for years to come. Made from vines planted on limestone in 1962, bringing a chalky aspect to the wine. Excellent.

95 POINTS

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

Florita, I think, often has this purity about it. How’s the purity? Lemon, lime, lemongrass, lavender perfume. It’s bright, and pure, essence of Clare Riesling with enough flavour to carry it, though not too much, and the acidity feel particularly fine and well-settled, and there’s this quiet stony grip, with a bright finish of very good length, a light gin and tonic with a twist of citrus carrying in the aftertaste. Excellent.

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Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2024 The Florita Riesling is tense and tightly coiled, with lemon zest, beeswax, green apple, cheesecloth, white pepper and shaved fennel. I find this to be quite a compact and savory iteration of the Florita, far less floral and talc-like than other years. I am looking to the acid drive and the phenolic presence for direction here, and both suggest that patience may be rewarded. 12.4% alcohol, sealed under screw cap.

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Angus Hughson - Vinous

The 2024 Riesling The Florita is taut and punchy with its embryonic aromas of lime leaf, preserved lemon and lemon thyme. This has impressive density of flavor, with a compact core of intense citrus flavors elevated by lacy grip over a long, sinewy finish. Beautifully composed for the long haul.

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Christina Pickard - Wine Enthusiast

An elegant, poised and still-young Riesling from a historic vineyard, this opens with lavender and pear aromas, with flickers of honey and white spice adding opulence. The palate is, for now, less about flavor and more about shape. There's gentle richness and power, sculpted by a long, lingering, laser beam of acidity. It's approachable enough to be food friendly now with sashimi and other delicate Japanese cuisine. But it'll more than reward cellaring. Hold for a decade or more—it'll be worse the wait, promise.