"Brian Croser (wine maker) has no doubts about the 2002 Riesling vintage: “It was the perfect riesling year,” he says. “Fruit quality was superb. Acid was wonderfully high. Flavour was excellent – it was a great, great riesling vintage.” His own riesling release is one of the first off the ranks, and the verdict is: it’s intense. Intensely grapey, intensely minerally, intensely lemony/powdery, with an acid structure that seems both obvious and soft – there’s clearly lots of acid here, but it has an Alsatian super-softness to it. The result of all this is that, unusually, it’s not overly attractive young – but should cellar magnificently.

Note, not my TN note, its from a friend of mine who publishes Wine Front Monthly

Gavin,

It might be interesting to note that James Halliday gave this wine a 96/100 rating!

I had the unusual opportunity to decant a white wine this past Saturday. This puppy took two hours just to get the lime-zest flavors tamed. After rebottling and allowing the wine to sit in a large glass at dinner for a while, it came under control nicely. It's a delicious wine that obviously needs some time to fully come together ... but more importantly, it is a keeper that will age more like a red (getting better for at least a decade) than a stereotypical white.

I'm down to 22 of these. What is the 2003 vintage looking like?

Nice notes Gavin!!

I've got three bottles of this lying down and my tast buds are just watering to get into it.