2024 Grosset Alea Riesling
2024 Grosset Alea Riesling

2024 Grosset Alea Riesling

95 pts
Grosset |Clare Valley |Riesling
A wonderfully balanced expression of off-dry Riesling from the Clare Valley master, Jeffery Grosset.
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Description

There are few Australian winemakers that dare to tackle the 'off-dry' wine style made famous from the cool vineyards of Germany and Alsace, France. But Jeffrey Grosset is one of them.

Many years ago, Jeffrey noticed that a particular corridor of the Rockwood Riesling vineyard in Watervale produced much higher natural acidity. Over the next five vintages, he kept this fruit separate, tinkering with different levels of residual sugar, and the balance of picking times to find just the right balance for an off-dry style. He released the first vintage of Alea in 2012.

Since then the wine has gone from strength to strength, becoming an essential part of the Grosset white offerings. A cool bottle of Alea next to a fresh, spicy Asian dish is one of the loveliest combinations in Australian wine.

95 points
"Grosset’s Alea Riesling is a super wine nowadays... I don’t roll out the “best ever” slogan very often but I think that this is the best Grosset Alea of the 12 or so vintages that I’ve tasted."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

95 points
"More tonic and pleasing, quinine-like bitterness in juicy lime, red apple, pineapple and gingery flavours, too. Even, balanced, cool fringes and an appealing, transparent glassiness overall."
- Mike Bennie (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points - "Grosset’s Alea Riesling is a super wine nowadays. It’s touched by sweetness and it has an associated grapey aspect, but there are dramatic mineral and tonic characters in the mix now too, and more kick to the finish than ever. Alea Riesling now keeps some of its affability up its sleeve, and it does because it’s busy kicking rocks of quartz down the palate road. Just-sweet apple and citrus flavours pop throughout but it’s the extras that really excite. I don’t roll out the “best ever” slogan very often but I think that this is the best Grosset Alea of the 12 or so vintages that I’ve tasted." - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

95 points - "Alea holds some additional sweetness as its canon. There's an appealing and ultra-high drinkability here. Charm in spades. Floral scents of frangipani and lemon blossom with candied ginger, lime juice, just-ripe pineapple and tonic water. Similar to taste with a slipperiness to texture that feels well metered by the building crispness of the finish. More tonic and pleasing, quinine-like bitterness in juicy lime, red apple, pineapple and gingery flavours, too. Even, balanced, cool fringes and an appealing, transparent glassiness overall." - Mike Bennie (Halliday Wine Companion)

94 points - "The 2024 Alea Riesling is velvety soft in the mouth, subtly focused and spicy. The residual sugar here holds the fruit in gently cupped hands and ushers it across the palate on downy, padded feet. This is a wine of persistence and finesse—gorgeous." - Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

Released: September 1st, 2024

This is the fifteenth vintage of the ‘European’ style from the Grosset Rockwood Vineyard with its hard red rock and poor orange/red loam soil. This delivers impressive depth of flavour in the mid-palate, pronounced lime and lemony flavours that are intense and deep, finishing almost bone-dry with purity and finesse; same variety, yet a quite different and fascinating alternative to Grosset Polish Hill.

Ageing Potential: Drink now – 20 years

Produced from riesling grown biodynamically at the Grosset Rockwood Vineyard

Unfined- vegan and vegetarian friendly

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type White
Body Light Bodied
Variety Riesling
Variety Style ["Off-Dry Riesling"]
Country Australia
Region Clare Valley
Australian State SA
Feature Organic
Iconic
High Score
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Halliday Wine Companion
The Wine Advocate
Critic Score 95
94
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
Closure Screw Cap

Grosset Wines

Jeffery Grosset has set a blistering pace for winemakers in the Clare Valley since 1981.

He is one of the premier Riesling producers in the country and has been recognised internationally as one of the finest winemakers in Australia.

His attention to detail, both in his organically farmed vineyards and his winery, has given rise to a portfolio of effortlessly articulate wines that are the envy of many.

Focus, intensity and immaculate balance are the hallmarks of every wine that Jeffery Grosset puts his hand to.

Jeffery Grosset in the vineyard - Clare Valley, SA Grosset Wines

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