2024 Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown Obstgarten K Riesling
2024 Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown Obstgarten K Riesling

2024 Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown Obstgarten K Riesling

95 pts
Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown |King Valley |Riesling
A finely balanced, off-dry Riesling that delivers bright fruit and serious refreshment with just the right touch of texture and weight.
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Jeremy Schmolzer and Tessa Brown keep showing just how good they are at finding the sweet spot between precision and drinkability, and this Riesling is a great example. The ‘K’ stands for Kabinett - this is their nod to that classic German style, made with fruit from one of the highest vineyards in Whitlands, King Valley.

It’s off-dry but seriously well balanced, thanks to a bolt of acidity that keeps everything feeling crisp and lively. The fruit was wild-fermented and left pretty much to do its thing, which is very much the Schmolzer & Brown way - minimal fuss, just clean, expressive winemaking.

The 2024 vintage brings all the zip and brightness you’d expect, with enough texture and weight to make it feel complete rather than simple. It’s one of those wines that works across the board - good with food, good on its own, and built to drink well now but with plenty of life ahead if you’re happy to wait.

95 points
"Scents of apple, lime, citrus and Thai basil. Smooth, elegant palate dressed in bright sweet spice. Perfect with Asian salad or noodle dishes."
- Jeni Port (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points
"Palate of citrus blossom, red apple, kumquat, lemonade with electric acidity and chalky phenolics. Long, seamless finish. Delicious."
- Tom Kline (Wine Pilot)

94 points
"Green and red apples, lime, lemon, sorbet aspect, and cooked apple. Beautiful balance, flavour and length. Delicious from the first sip."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

95 points - "Riesling specialists Jeremy Schmölzer and Tessa Brown deliver another off-dry riesling (21g/L RS) of class. This is immediately approachable and perfect for that Asian salad or noodle dish with its freshness and gently spicy sweetness. Scents of apple, lime and citrus with a hint of Thai basil. Moves effortlessly flavour-wise on to a palate that is smooth and elegant, dressed in a bright, sweet spice that truly resonates." - Jeni Port (Halliday Wine Companion)

95 points - "A demure opening here, though with a coiled spring feel. Lime sorbet, lemon skin, kumquat, slate, and hints of fuzzy peach skin lead the charge. Some air sees things unfurl a touch, unlocking Thai basil and sweeter pops of citrus blossom, cinnamon poached apple and elderflower. The palate is loaded with textural charm, coating the mouth with sweet citrus blossom, red apple, kumquat and lemonade. It’s round in the mouth with a nice glow thanks to the wine’s 21 grams of residual sugar. But it still holds that same coiled spring tensility shooting through the centre thanks to a charge of electric acidity and firm, chalky phenolics which frame and constrict the mouth through a long and seamless finish. These wines are always imbued with a sense of class and poise - no exception here. Delicious. 145 dozen bottled." - Tom Kline (Wine Pilot)

94 points - "Off-dry riesling. From Whitlands in King Valley. 145 dozen made. Beautiful wine. Balanced on a pinhead. Green and red apples, lime and lemon, a sorbet aspect, a run of cooked apple. It has line, flavour and length, and it could hardly be more delicious. Hooked, I was, from the first sip." - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

94 points - "The 2024 Obstgarten K Riesling carries 21 grams of residual sugar per liter, and the wine feels fleshy and sumptuous in the mouth, albeit within an attractively light and lacy frame. I find this to be chewy and satisfying, with a phenolic framework that balances the residual sugar, and sewn together by saline threads of acidity. This is lovely, so lovely. 10.5% alcohol, sealed under screw cap." - Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)

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    2022 Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown Obstgarten K Riesling
    Rated 4 out of 5 stars
    A Mosel experience

    This wine was a real Mosel Riesling tasting experience, with less of the talc power-lime flavours that can be a bit harsh in younger Mosel Riesling. Top drop.

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Very pallid straw hue. The nose is so fine and delicate, finely musky, crushed salted rose petal-esque. A really pretty crystalline impression, with lime juice, green citrus zest and tightly coiled freshness. The palate is all focussed purity, feather weight, white peach and green apples, light and dancing with a touch of sweetness breadthening the wine to length. Pure and lemonadey.

Price Bracket $41 to $50
Type White
Body Light Bodied
Variety Riesling
Country Australia
Region King Valley
Australian State VIC
Feature Women in Wine
Reviewed By The Wine Front
Halliday Wine Companion
Wine Pilot
The Wine Advocate
Critic Score 95
94
Alcohol 10%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
Closure Screw Cap

Vignerons Schmölzer & Brown

Tessa and Jeremy are playing a long-game with their Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown label.

They have invested in a block of land high in the hills behind Beechworth and have planted 10,000 vines on it over the last couple of years with the plan to farm it organically. Tessa has a wealth of experience from time at Sorrenberg and Kooyong, Jeremy is an architect by trade with an eye for detail.

It comes as no surprise that the buzz around this husband and wife team is palpable and the praise is high. Max Allen called them, “one of a remarkable number of impressive new wine labels to have cropped up in Beechworth over the last five years.”

They are going to be at the forefront of Beechworth wine for many years to come.

Tessa and Jeremy in Thorley vineyard - Beechworth, VIC Vignerons Schmölzer & Brown

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