Grosset Polish Hill Riesling 2008 - $50.00 - Online Price $37.99
That glint in his eyes will tell you that Jeff Grosset believes the 2008 harvest has brought with it a great Polish Hill Riesling, certainly the best under his label since 2002. The style is unwaveringly Polish Hill, tight, coiled, unyielding, even repressed at present, but promising much for the patient winelover. The aromatics are restrained with mere hints of limey minerality while the palate is vibrant, long and deep with intense slatey, quartzy minerality and mouth-watering limey, lemony notes. It has additional dimensions of power and intensity while showing its characteristic lean austere frame before taut, racy acidity highlights an ultra-dry finish of extraordinary length. This is a beautifully balanced riesling of great finesse that needs time to show it at its best.

Grosset 'Springvale' Watervale Riesling 2008 - $45.00 - Online Price $29.99
Few Australian single vineyards can boast the lineage of this wine. This is the 28th vintage in which Grosset has released a Watervale Riesling, with the name 'Springvale' emphasising the fact that it is now entirely from the single vineyard owned by Grosset. Close to the previous site, this vineyard has a slightly higher elevation and almost identical soil and rock structure.
The 2008 vintage is shaping up to be the best since 2002 for Clare riesling while the 'Springvale' increasingly looks closer in quality terms to the 'Polish Hill' than it did in its first 20 years. Having said that, it is fresher, more fragrant and more driven by intense lime juice flavour than the Polish Hill. There is some restraint in this young riesling; vibrance and succulence with zesty, almost earthy and certainly minerally notes; as well as pure fruit before its lingering, dry finish.