Mount Horrocks 'Watervale' Riesling 2024

Scores

95 / 100

"'Mount Horrocks Watervale Riesling 2024 is a banger. It tastes of slate, lime, chalk, and something more floral—pink and white flowers, like marshmallows in bloom. There’s good intensity to this wine, but it’s more about flow, feel, and length. Yes. Absolutely yes.""
- Campbell Mattinson

96 / 100

""Wow! What a gorgeous wine this is. The 2024 Watervale Riesling leads with lemon sherbet and scratched citrus peel, coiled saline acidity, white flowers, and chalk. It is long, fine, and lingering but also focused, precise, and authoritative. Mount Horrocks is a superb, high-quality producer in Watervale, and amongst those who know, winemaker/owner Stephanie Toole is a beacon for precise, attention-to-detail winemaking. Overlook at your own peril. This is a standout and pure pleasure to drink." - Erin Larkin (The Wine Advocate)"
- Erin Larkin

95 / 100

""The cool 2024 season was particularly spectacular in the Clare Valley, translated impeccably by Stephanie Toole in a riesling of pristine purity, deep concentration, and profound endurance. Pitch-perfect granny smith apple and lime build a palate of considerable presence, traced with natural acidity of heightened cut and tension." - Tyson Stelzer (October 2024)"
- Tyson Stelzer

97 / 100

"97 points and Top 100 Wines for 2024 and Top 20 Whites over $35 by Nick Ryan, The Weekend Australian Magazine “Living in a wine region has its advantages. During harvest this year I bumped into winemaker Stephanie Toole in the greengrocers and she had a smile on her face that only just fit through the door. “We’ve just picked the best riesling fruit I’ve seen in my life,” she told me. Some winemakers can gild the lily but Toole isn’t one of them, and that early excitement becomes truth in this wine. Simply exceptional.”"
- Nick Ryan

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