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The Bulletin Magazine
2007 Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling
This is one of Australia’s best stickies. Keep the weightier De Bortoli’s Noble One for dinner and enjoy Stephanie Toole’s Clare Valley masterpiece while the sun shines. It’s light of body but marvelously intense. Fragrant, alluring and gently lush, it is the perfect accompaniment to pavlova.
Peter Forrestal, 18th December 2007
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Home beautiful Magazine
Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling 2007
This dessert wine is produced using a process of cutting the vine canes, which concentrates the sugars in the ripe grapes. The result is a wine with intense citrus flavours with hints of vanilla, honey and crystallised fruit characters. Delicious!
Karen Anderson
December 2007
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The Sun Herald, Sunday Life Magazine
Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling 2007
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This excellent sweet riesling from the Clare Valley is somewhat similar to the Spatlese rieslings of a generation ago. Bright yellow-green in colour, it has aromas that suggest citrus, candy and spice. The palate has texture, acidity and a spicy finish. Delicious.
Food: Flambeed stonefruits with sabayon.
Ageing: Drink now to 2010
Uncorked by:
Sally Gudgeon & Ralph Kyte-Powell
17th/18th November
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SA Life Magazine
Mount Horrocks 2007 Cordon Cut Riesling
This is one of Australia’s remarkable sweet white wines – and the harsh growing conditions of 2007 somehow worked in favour of this unusual wine production technique. Stephanie Toole cuts the canes off her Riesling vines in Auburn when the grapes are ripening, then allows the fruit to remain on the vine so that the sweet flavours concentrate while the berries dry like raisins. The resulting viscous dessert wine is a heady meld of intense flavours – honey, vanilla, brown spices, mandarin oil, lemon zest – though sweet fruit is smartly balanced by drying mineral characters (also a pronounced feature of Mt Horrocks’ standard Riesling wine). A perfect partner for crème brulee.
David Sly, November 2007
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The Advertiser
Food & Wine Magazine
Mount Horrocks 2007 Cordon Cut Riesling
93 Points
This golden sweetie is dense with florals and light honey yet has a fresh-fruit burst of crisp apples and a layer of creamy lemon butter, finishing with lovely, lip-smacking acidity that’s stylistically fresh and distinctive.
Tony Love, October 24th 2007
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THE AGE, A2 Magazine
Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling 2006
You don’t have to be a dessert fan to appreciate this wine – just a lover of intense, sweetie styles. Chill it down but not too much, as you want to smell its wonderful, intense aromatics of honeysuckle, candied citrus and honey.
Jane Faulkner
Saturday 28th July
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Gourmet Traveller WINE
100 TOP NEW RELEASES
June/July 2007
Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling 2006
93 Points
Floral, tea-leaf and caramel aromas of shriveled grapes, plus honey and crème brulée notes. There is some acid firmness and a little bitterness to conclude, which helps give it a clean finish. Lively and delicious.
Huon Hooke
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THE AGE, Epicure Magazine
Autumn 2007
Ralph Kyte-Powell
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Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling 2006
There are several ways of obtaining the sugar levels in grapes to make truly luscious sweet white wines. In cordon cutting, ripe bunches of grapes are cut from the vine, but left hanging on the trellis to concentrate the sweet juice by part-drying. The result in this Clare Valley sweetie is a juicy, grapey confection that retains some floral and citrus varietal cues, along with considerable sweetness and intensity, and a firm backbone.
Ageing? Drink over three years.
Food ideas: Peaches topped with brown sugar and grilled.
8th May 2007
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Sydney Morning Herald - Good Living Magazine
Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling 2006
BEST STICKY
93/100
A very sweet, non-botrytised Clare Valley wine. Aromas of honey and crème brulee; floral, caramel and tea leaf. Concentrated, with firm acidity and a trace of bitterness countering the considerable sweetness.
Food: crème brulee
Huon Hooke April 2007
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Sydney Morning Herald - Good Weekend Magazine
Saturday 3rd March 2007
Mount Horrocks 2006 Clare Valley Cordon Cut Riesling
Grapes partly dried on the vine; no botrytis. Honey and crème brulee aromas; floral, caramel, tealeafy. Concentrated, flavour-packed, a touch of hardness.
With summer pudding.
Huon Hooke
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