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16/12/2020Mount Horrocks Cordon Cut Riesling 2020
94 Points
It’s not its complexity that sets Mount Horrocks apart among the great sweet Rieslings (as unctuous and bombastic as it is) but the fact that it achieves this with the utmost seamlessness and completeness from the outset. Roast peach, ripe fig and toffee are honed by a refreshing line of pure lemon acidity, more toned than usual in this drought season yet nonetheless defining fantastic line and enduring persistence.
By Tyson Stelzer
WBM Magazine
November/December
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01/05/2020Mount 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
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04/03/2020Mount 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
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05/02/2019Mount 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
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14/06/20182017 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
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14/06/20182017 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
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19/04/2017Mount 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
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16/02/20172016 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 – 11th January 2017
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16/02/2017Mount 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 TelegraphOctober 16th 2016
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07/03/2016Tyson 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
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April/May 2016WBM Magazine
12/11/2015Mount 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
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13/08/2015Mount 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
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