About The Wine
Winemaker Jonny Hughes has a great way with Riesling.
For the Hughes & Hughes Riesling, a small portion was fermented on skins to pick up a little extra texture and grip.
There's a smidgen of residual sugar here to retain balance and add body, the finish is a blistering laser beam of purity and refreshment.
This is a great drink and top value in the context of Tasmanian wine.
This wine and a fresh palate of whitebait would be a very good afternoon.
About Mewstone
Mewstone Wines is a joint venture between Jonny and Matt Hughes, two Tasmanian born wine-heads, and their respective wives Margie and Cathie.
The two families have invested in a small plot of land on the banks of the D’Entrecasteaux Channel in the charmingly named locality of Flowerpot, on the south-eastern tip of Tasmania. Matt works the grapes, Jonny makes the wines, taking what he learnt from seven years as assistant winemaker at Moorilla and re-imagining it for his own label.
The Hughes & Hughes wines offer some of the best value to be found in Tasmania at the moment, and the Mewstone premium range focuses on exceptional single-vineyard wines made in a style that Jonny wants to drink. James Halliday called them, "an utterly exceptional wine producer". Keep an eye on this ambitious pair as their star continues to rise.

Mewstone Vineyard, TAS