2024 Vignerons Schmolzer & Brown Obstgarten T Riesling

A Germanic style Riesling from the second highest Riesling vineyard in Victoria. It's dry, slatey and beautifully balanced.

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While the Schmölzer & Brown duo await their own estate-grown Riesling to come online, they are plundering other cool-climate Victorian regions for premium fruit to play with.

Here they take fruit from the second highest Riesling vineyard in Whitlands region, and turn it into their version of a German Trocken style Riesling - hence the Obstgarten 'T'.

The acidity is absolutely blistering allowing the wine to find an easy balance with a touch of residual sugar though still maintaining a dry style overall.

This is a beautiful, elegant style of Riesling from one of Victoria's rising star producers. Drink now or cellar long.

94 points
“Kabinett” ripeness with a portion of skin contact to build texture. King Valley riesling gets serious and it's next level stuff. There's a super fineness of expression, a delicacy, a purity to be explored here."
- Jeni Port (Halliday Wine Companion)

94 points
"This is a dry riesling though there’s plenty of give, or body, to the fruit. In fact in riesling terms it’s big on texture, and with it an associated impression of character... It has excellent intensity and length."
- Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)
94 points
"The wine’s purity, texture, sugar and structure work together to make a Riesling of balance and interest. Another strong release. 210 dozen bottled."
- Tom Kline (Wine Pilot)

94 points - "“Kabinett” ripeness with a portion of skin contact to build texture. King Valley riesling gets serious and it's next level stuff. There's a super fineness of expression, a delicacy, a purity to be explored here. Bristles in grapefruit, lemon fruits and green pear, lifted nicely by white florals and a splash of spice. Dry and crisp with filigree fine acidity." - Jeni Port (Halliday Wine Companion)

94 points - "This is a dry riesling though there’s plenty of give, or body, to the fruit. In fact in riesling terms it’s big on texture, and with it an associated impression of character. It tastes of lime, orange, slate, tonic water and fennel, with crushed herb and floral characters an important part of the wine’s show, as indeed is a yeasty hay-like note. It feels both clean and dirty, in a good way. It has excellent intensity and length." - Campbell Mattinson (The Wine Front)

94 points - "This is understandably nervy on opening but is quick to settle into a harmonious mix of homemade lemonade, tonic, lime pith, Makrut lime leaf and peach blossom start, followed by subtle nashi pear, green apple, slate, chalk and a glimmer of cinnamon. It’s zesty, lifted, fresh and bright. The palate balances texture and tautness nicely, with 5 grams of residual sugar here sitting in wonderful balance. Lemon rind and green apple sit above hints of white peach and kumquat with a shot of mineral presence through the core and a nice bite of preserved lemon phenolics gripping the sides and drawing length. Classic acidity cleans up and elongates the zesty fruit. The wine’s purity, texture, sugar and structure work together to make a Riesling of balance and interest. Another strong release. 210 dozen bottled." - Tom Kline (Wine Pilot)

A single site, Germanic dry-style Riesling from the second highest altitude Riesling vineyard in Victoria: mature, unirrigated and close-planted vines on the Whitlands high plateau.

A sweetpea petal floral nose, enhanced with lime blossom and wet pebble notes; some sherberty orange stone fruit character. The palate initially spreads and then rapidly condense to an intensely fine clear acid line. Finishes toothsome and greenish, with crunchy minerality and great length.

Region: Whitlands, VIC
Blend: Riesling (100%)
ABV: 11.00%
Closure: 750ml
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Price Bracket $31 to $40
Type White
Body Light Bodied
Variety Riesling
Country Australia
Region Whitlands
Australian State VIC
Feature Women in Wine
Alcohol 11%
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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