Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling Reviews

The Real Review

Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling 2019

93 Points

By Ralph Kyte-Powell

It’s a glittering yellow wine with pungent aromas reminiscent of sweet tropical fruits, flowers and wild honey. The palate is lush and very sweet with good depth, tangy acid balance and tight backbone.

The Real Review

March 2020

WBM Magazine

Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling 2019

By Tyson Stelzer

96 Points

 A magnificent Cordon Cut that basks in the concentration of its dry, low-yeilding season, making for a wine at once more succulent and simultaneously more zesty than ever. Its grand complexity cements a delectably enthralling style that perfectly juxtaposes exuberant sweetness with a grand acid line and exceptional line and length.

WBM Magazine

November/December

“dessert wine that has it all” WBM Magazine

Mount Horrocks 2018 Cordon Cut Riesling

By Tyson Stelzer

96 Points

A scintillating Cordon Cut of glittering acidity, pronounced limestone mineral structure and a panoply of exotic complexity. Apricots, spice, even incense, this is dessert wine that has it all. Yet for all of its enticing complexity, what really elevates this vintage to a new plane are its precision, focus and tension. Sensational.

WBM Magazine

Jan/Feb 2019

The Real Review

2017 Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling

By Huon Hooke

95 Points 

Bright light to medium yellow colour. The bouquet is fresh and yeasty, bright and youthful. In the mouth, it’s intense and rich, sweet and deeply-flavoured, with a clean finish thanks to plenty of acid. This was a very late harvest (May 15) and a sweeter wine, intense and powerful, and it should age well.

The Real Review, September 2017

Winefront

2017 Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling

By Campbell Mattinson

The famous Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut. Intensely sweet and limey with a marmalade jam character and plenty of sweet, crystalline flavour to the finish. We always sit here, when assessing dessert wines, toying with the word cloying; this wraps its arms around the word, without quite touching it. Geez it goes close though. Simple but impressively intense.

90 Points

winefront.com.au

October 2017

“a kiss of honey”

Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Clare Valley Riesling 2016

One of the great Australian sweet wines, from grapes grown to be sweet and rich. It sits in the mouth with freshness, and lingers impossibly long and with a kiss of honey. A beautiful way to finish a meal.

By Mike Bennie

Delicious Magazine, May 2017

The Advertiser

2016 Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Clare Valley Riesling

4 1/2 Stars

By Tony Love

A special take on Clare Riesling, in a dessert style, the vines cut about six weeks before estimated optimum fruit ripeness for the grapes dry out and concentrate the intrinsic lime citrus flavours within. The colour in the glass has a touch of green in the pale gold, the flavours oozing of lime gelato, the cut of acidity seating neatly in the zone without searing interruption

The Advertiser – 11^th January 2017

Spectacular Dessert Wine

Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Clare Valley Riesling 2016

By John Fordham

This spectacular dessert wine shows just how adept Clare Valley winemaker Stephanie Toole is at extracting bewildering flavours from the Riesling grape.

She does it by cutting the canes and allowing the fruit to concentrate naturally in the vineyard.

“From the Vine”
Sunday Telegraph

October 16^th 2016

Halliday Wine Companion Magazine

Tyson Stelzer’s – Clare & Eden picks

Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Clare Valley Riesling 2015

96 Points

2015 will go down among the greatest and longest-lived Cordon Cuts, a benchmark that achieves complexity and concentration while upholding an exceptional, enduring acid line rarely seen in Australian dessert wines. Primary lemon and lime with lifted lily notes take the limelight, with honey and spice lurking in the background. Line and length are outstanding.

Halliday Wine Companion Magazine 2016
By Tyson Stelzer
April/May 2016

WBM Magazine

Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Clare Valley Riesling 2015

96 Points

By Tyson Stelzer 

A benchmark Cordon Cut that achieves complexity and concentration while upholding an exceptional, enduring acid line rarely seen in Australian dessert wines. With outstanding line and length, 2015 will go down among the greatest and longest-lived Cordon Cuts.

November 2015

James Halliday Wine Companion 2016

Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Clare Valley Riesling 2014 

94 points

Extremely rich and luscious; lime marmalade and preserved cumquat sweetness balanced by lemon sherbet acidity can’t help but seduce – ideal by the glass (or half bottle) proposition for restaurants.

To 2018

Top 100 Wines – Tony Love

2014 Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling

By Tony Love

95 Points

From the region that’s made its name with crisp, dry styled Riesling, this is one of the great Australian sweet rieslings, using the method of cutting fruit-bearing vine canes to concentrate grape sugars which brings a heady floral beauty to the aromatics and results in a captivating dessert drink that highlights the lime curd essences of the genre and gaining a spice twist with a mandarin like tang. Delicious, and not too heavy.

Food: Lime and Coconut Pie

25^th July 2015