Country: Australia
Region: Clare Valley
Vintage: 2024
Variety: Riesling
Alcohol volume: 12.6%
Closure: Screwcap

Aroma
Dainty white lily, granny smith apple and lemon blossom of pinpoint perfection rise in a dramatic crescendo.

Palate
At its core, it is intense, powerful and fine, pure lime juice that tingles on the mid-palate and shows impressive length even now.

Region notes
Produced from riesling grown biodynamically at the Grosset Springvale Vineyard. Unfined – vegan and vegetarian friendly.

Winemakers comments
The winemaking process is gentle, uncomplicated and is never rushed. Ev erything is aimed at achieving the finest expression of variety and place. To avoid all inputs that threaten to compromise quality may seem obvious. Yet, to achieve this has taken decades.

Cellaring potential
A Polish Hill for the ages; a white that will delight while young; and yet age as gracefully as we hope to. Drink 2024 - 2064.

Campbell Mattinson
97 Points
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.

Mike Bennie
97 Points
This needs no introduction; safe to say, this is one of the most delicious young releases of this wine. Immediate appeal in abundant jasmine floral lift, green apple fruitiness, soft lime elements, ginger cake, blackcurrant touches and a wellspring of saline minerality. There's a juiciness, though strict ribbons of pulverised pumice and granitic mineral character find chew and pucker here, too. In all that, the intensity is somewhat dialled down while drinkability is through the roof. No matter, the character shifts each year in degree; it's a stellar wine, full of inimitable character and a finesse that Grosset does so well.

Tyson Stelzer
98 Points
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 his 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. It is a worthy winner of my Riesling of the Year and my White Wine of the Year.

James Suckling
97 Points
Intensely complex and inviting aromas of flint, lemon peel, crushed stones, gun smoke and white nectarines. The palate is tightly wound, with laser-like acidity and underlying power, giving notes of grapefruit peel, orange blossoms and candied lime zest. An Australian classic that’s been made every year since 1981. It will age for decades to come. Excellent. Drink or hold. Screw cap.