Pewsey Vale : The Contours Riesling Museum Reserve 2017

Released after seven years in bottle. Delicate yet complex aromas of finger limes, grapefruit, kerosene, sage oil, preserved lemons, gun smoke and salted nuts. The palate is high tension, with an intense concentration of flavours that are coiled around a textural palate and striking acidity. Made from vines planted in 1965, this has years of life ahead in the bottle. Excellent. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

Full screwcapped bottle 1,269 g. Picked 23 and 24 March. From old vines in the coolest part of this vineyard first planted 175 years ago and released only after five years in bottle (shorter than of old?). Mature but very refreshing Riesling nose. Lively, lime-marmalade-on-toast flavours. Clean and lean. Not amazingly long but bone dry and smoky. Lots of fun but perhaps not the most amazing Contours bottling I have encountered. (JR)