Grosset Polish Hill Riesling Claire Valley 2024
Region: Claire Valley
Sub Region: Polish Hill
Variety: Riesling
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2024
The Wine
Grosset Wines is a small family-run operation entering its fifth decade. The unwavering vision is to create pure expressions of variety and place. Our four estate-owned vineyards, A-Grade Certified Organic and Biodynamic (ACO), are located in high altitude country of the Clare Valley, each site selected for its potential to produce great wine and planted by Grosset. Each is handpicked and hand pruned; each bunch of grapes harvested at optimum ripeness.
Cellared Says
We’ve opened a cellared a lot of the 2023 and 2024 at events and for clients. Both were excellent upon release, but for me the ’23 was a ever so slightly better when first on market, just that little richer and built in the mid palate. That’s now for history as its all about where these will sit in the future, both are cellarable par excellence. Our suggestion is stocking up on a six pack of every vintage and over the course of a decade or more dip in from time to time and revisit this remarkable wine. Iconic, for an Australian white wine? Absolutely.
Reviews
Thanks to a cool season and biodynamic farming, Jeff Grosset proclaims 2024 as the most pristine fruit he has seen since he first planted in the Clare Valley in the early 1980s. By jove! Polish Hill 2024 is as desperately gorgeous as any of the highlights of (Grosset's) lauded career. Dainty white lily, granny smith apple and lemon blossom of pinpoint perfection rise in a dramatic crescendo over a powerful core of talcum powder structure, crystalline acidity and ancient slate texture, tracing a finish unrelenting for a full sixty seconds. It is at once lighter than air and yet possessing a resolute determination that sets a future in the cellar as enduring as the career of its maker. The essence of the Clare, time will most certainly reveal this to be one of the greatest in Grosset's 44 vintage history, and one of the finest Australian rieslings conjured yet. Drink 2024-2064 (40 Years).
98 Points - Tyson Stelzer, WBM
Exceptional concentration of fruit flavour here. This is straight and direct but wow it has a charge to it. Lime, chalk, white flower and wet slate flavours storm through the palate in emphatic fashion. There’s an extra note to the finish that I can’t quite place but I’ll call it brine splashed on potpourri splashed on rocks. The longer I sit and taste this wine the more I think that this is a Grosset riesling for the ages.
97 Points - Campbell Mattinson
Region: Claire Valley
Sub Region: Polish Hill
Variety: Riesling
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2024
The Wine
Grosset Wines is a small family-run operation entering its fifth decade. The unwavering vision is to create pure expressions of variety and place. Our four estate-owned vineyards, A-Grade Certified Organic and Biodynamic (ACO), are located in high altitude country of the Clare Valley, each site selected for its potential to produce great wine and planted by Grosset. Each is handpicked and hand pruned; each bunch of grapes harvested at optimum ripeness.
Cellared Says
We’ve opened a cellared a lot of the 2023 and 2024 at events and for clients. Both were excellent upon release, but for me the ’23 was a ever so slightly better when first on market, just that little richer and built in the mid palate. That’s now for history as its all about where these will sit in the future, both are cellarable par excellence. Our suggestion is stocking up on a six pack of every vintage and over the course of a decade or more dip in from time to time and revisit this remarkable wine. Iconic, for an Australian white wine? Absolutely.
Reviews
Thanks to a cool season and biodynamic farming, Jeff Grosset proclaims 2024 as the most pristine fruit he has seen since he first planted in the Clare Valley in the early 1980s. By jove! Polish Hill 2024 is as desperately gorgeous as any of the highlights of (Grosset's) lauded career. Dainty white lily, granny smith apple and lemon blossom of pinpoint perfection rise in a dramatic crescendo over a powerful core of talcum powder structure, crystalline acidity and ancient slate texture, tracing a finish unrelenting for a full sixty seconds. It is at once lighter than air and yet possessing a resolute determination that sets a future in the cellar as enduring as the career of its maker. The essence of the Clare, time will most certainly reveal this to be one of the greatest in Grosset's 44 vintage history, and one of the finest Australian rieslings conjured yet. Drink 2024-2064 (40 Years).
98 Points - Tyson Stelzer, WBM
Exceptional concentration of fruit flavour here. This is straight and direct but wow it has a charge to it. Lime, chalk, white flower and wet slate flavours storm through the palate in emphatic fashion. There’s an extra note to the finish that I can’t quite place but I’ll call it brine splashed on potpourri splashed on rocks. The longer I sit and taste this wine the more I think that this is a Grosset riesling for the ages.
97 Points - Campbell Mattinson
Region: Claire Valley
Sub Region: Polish Hill
Variety: Riesling
Country: Australia
Vintage: 2024
The Wine
Grosset Wines is a small family-run operation entering its fifth decade. The unwavering vision is to create pure expressions of variety and place. Our four estate-owned vineyards, A-Grade Certified Organic and Biodynamic (ACO), are located in high altitude country of the Clare Valley, each site selected for its potential to produce great wine and planted by Grosset. Each is handpicked and hand pruned; each bunch of grapes harvested at optimum ripeness.
Cellared Says
We’ve opened a cellared a lot of the 2023 and 2024 at events and for clients. Both were excellent upon release, but for me the ’23 was a ever so slightly better when first on market, just that little richer and built in the mid palate. That’s now for history as its all about where these will sit in the future, both are cellarable par excellence. Our suggestion is stocking up on a six pack of every vintage and over the course of a decade or more dip in from time to time and revisit this remarkable wine. Iconic, for an Australian white wine? Absolutely.
Reviews
Thanks to a cool season and biodynamic farming, Jeff Grosset proclaims 2024 as the most pristine fruit he has seen since he first planted in the Clare Valley in the early 1980s. By jove! Polish Hill 2024 is as desperately gorgeous as any of the highlights of (Grosset's) lauded career. Dainty white lily, granny smith apple and lemon blossom of pinpoint perfection rise in a dramatic crescendo over a powerful core of talcum powder structure, crystalline acidity and ancient slate texture, tracing a finish unrelenting for a full sixty seconds. It is at once lighter than air and yet possessing a resolute determination that sets a future in the cellar as enduring as the career of its maker. The essence of the Clare, time will most certainly reveal this to be one of the greatest in Grosset's 44 vintage history, and one of the finest Australian rieslings conjured yet. Drink 2024-2064 (40 Years).
98 Points - Tyson Stelzer, WBM
Exceptional concentration of fruit flavour here. This is straight and direct but wow it has a charge to it. Lime, chalk, white flower and wet slate flavours storm through the palate in emphatic fashion. There’s an extra note to the finish that I can’t quite place but I’ll call it brine splashed on potpourri splashed on rocks. The longer I sit and taste this wine the more I think that this is a Grosset riesling for the ages.
97 Points - Campbell Mattinson