{"product_id":"2025-samantha-may-citrine-skin-contact-riesling","title":"2025 Samantha May Citrine Skin Contact Riesling","description":"\u003cp\u003eSam Sutherland is building something seriously exciting with her Samantha May label, focusing on bright, textural expressions out of regional New South Wales. She runs with a strictly vineyard-first mentality, championing sustainable farming and keeping cellar interventions to a minimum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor this 2025 release, she's leaned into her first-ever skin-contact project out of Orange, appropriately dubbed 'Citrine' after the yellow-orange quartz. The fruit is pulled from the Carrington vineyard, sitting at a breezy 850 metres above sea level to guarantee the natural acidity stays incredibly sharp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe process here is a massive departure from standard-issue Aussie Riesling. Sutherland left the juice on skins for a full eight months before running it through a traditional basket press. It's bottled completely unfiltered with less than a single gram of residual sugar, landing in the glass with a hazy glow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt drinks with a remarkably savoury, textural grip. Forget the usual limey Riesling profile - this leans heavily into bruised mandarin peel, dried floral aromatics, and a bitter orange tang, all wrapped up in chalky, complex tannins. Bone-dry and endlessly fascinating. Not your average Rizza and all the better for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e95 points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Samantha May is a producer to watch... The pleasure, interest and drinking appeal is there. Excellent. So excellent. My word this is delicious. It’s +1 points for me on that point, as such.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Gary Walsh (The Wine Front)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Samantha May","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44519237877803,"sku":"2025 Samantha May Citrine Skin Contact Riesling","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2572\/9722\/files\/2025SamanthaMayCitrineSkinContactRiesling.png?v=1786321671","url":"https:\/\/www.differentdrop.com\/products\/2025-samantha-may-citrine-skin-contact-riesling","provider":"Different Drop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}