Vineyard Select Series

The fruit is from a Kirrihill owned vineyard in Watervale called “Slate Creek”, planted in the 1970’s. As you guessed, the vines are sitting on slate, which gives incredible results, the fruit has great concentration of flavour and minerality on the palate.

The 2025 season was excellent for Riesling, we are super happy with how the wines are shaping up. The vines maintained very healthy canopies throughout the dry summer, and the vineyard team kept up with consistent and generous irrigation to meet the perfect ripening conditions. Picking at cool temperatures and quick transportation will avoid picking up colour, oxidation, maceration and therefore loss of quality, flavour and acidity.

I chose this portion of the vineyard for this wine because it showcased such pretty and lifted aromas post fermentation, I thought this would be a great fit for this new Vineyard Selection Series. That is one of my new favourite Kirrihill wines! I hope you guys enjoy it as much as we do.

• Type: White
• Varietal: Riesling