2018 Jim Barry The Florita Riesling Cellar Release

96 POINTS

Mike Bennie - Halliday Wine Companion

Soft and supple, medium-weight white wine of modest development, good retention of freshness and a pitch-perfect mesh of citrus fruit, gin and tonic characters, green olive, red apple with calling cards of maturity in truffle, creme brûlée, honey and a touch of sizzled butter. A very pleasing balance of all elements, an intensity and inherent complexity on show. It delivers a very serious white wine expression, compelling for its intensity and yet freshness.

96 POINTS

James Halliday - Halliday Wine Companion

The vineyard was planted by Leo Buring in '62, purchased from Southcorp in a Bond Moment by the Barry family in '86. It always produces grapes with an ethereal ability to transform the very good into a category of its own, glistening like pure silver reflecting the rays of the morning sun.

95 POINTS

James Suckling

This sits in a very clear, refined zone of fresh limes and light apples with a super fine line of acidity that pins fresh lime and apple flavors in long and fresh.

95 POINTS

Huon Hooke - The Real Review

Palish colour and a youthful, faintly yeasty aroma - the palate is intense and tightly-focused, a little straightforward at this stage, but it's young and undeveloped, with the merest hint of sweetness and a lot of flavours in the lemon citrus spectrum. The finish is firm and dry, the middle more juicy, and it's refreshed by vibrant acidity. Young and arguably unready today, it has a very bright future.

95 POINTS

Gary Walsh - The Wine Front

Watervale Riesling. I’ve had writers block trying to clack out an introduction just now, not that you’d call it anything so lofty, but still. Brisk and pure, intensity of flavour, delivered with precision, closing with superb length, dusty tracks of talc-like texture in its wake. Lemon, lime, a little bit of ginger and bathtime florals. Happy days. It’s a sizzler.

94 POINTS

James Suckling

This is fantastic with so much crushed-stone and mineral character, as well as green apples and limes. Full-bodied, dry and flavorful. Bitter lemon and steel.

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Erin Larkin - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Tasted at the Armagh Hut with Sam and Tom Barry, the 2018 The Florita Riesling leads with a Comté cheese character, but it has energy and flow in abundance. There are notes of cheesecloth—lanolin, even—fennel flower, brine, walnuts… I love this vintage in the reds, and it’s super cool to see how well it translated to the whites as well! This is great. Yum.