Jim Barry, Florita Riesling, Clare Valley

Jim Barry · South Australia › Clare Valley › Australia

White · Riesling

Critics

91 /100

Reviews

professional

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Community Reviews

Reviews

91.4

Avg Score

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Too young. 5+ more years.

2013 vintage

Very pure, intense. Cutting acidity but a real depth of flavour. Lemon, lime, white flowers, pale grapefruit and a touch of spice.

2024 vintage

Beautifully structured. The lifted aromatics of Florita. Excellent vintage. Better in a decade.

2024 vintage

Very pale, almost clear. Floral notes on the nose, complemented by green apples, pineapples, lemon and grapefruit. Crunchy green apples on the palate, with notes of pineapples and melon. Fresh, with a good bite. Long, sweet finish.

2024 vintage

Watery-pale, bright spritzy acid with delicate floral and citrus aromatics but it's way too young and there's barely any character yet. Not very interesting right now but I have hope for the future.

2022 vintage

Very pale and watery gold. Lime oil nose, pale and fine too, with a pungent zip of grapes lime rising. Taste is sharp and taut, brisk lime oil, and the faintest sweetness emerging. Acidity is rapier sharp but not shocking battery acid. Day 2, this has sweetened up a lot. It has moved to the foreground from the background and the acidity receded. Well balanced by the acidity. Really enjoyable, and a good structure for ageing it appears.

2022 vintage

A direct communicator but still too youthful to be the complete package. Linear, direct and laser like focus, this wine will cut through anything. Has evolved but not much with notes of bitter honey, citrus, green apple and beeswax that dominate. Drink from 2026 to 10+ years after that.

2013 vintage

Very pale watery yellow gold, almost colourless. Very faint nose, wafts of lime zest, dash of bread, seawater spray, all incredibly reticent. Taste is dilute limewater, salty and zest, pale, restrained; aerate and the lime zest comes through, limpid, ethereal, the lime oil comes out as it warms, with intriguing pale white flowers. Very fine and has the structure to age very gracefully. Next day is still very good. Will buy more and leave a number of years.

2022 vintage

The wine is in a great shape to drink. Toast, nutty come through on both nose and palate with some typical Clare Riesling petrol notes. The flavour starts to mellow as well, but I feel the intensity and finish is better for 2020 vintage.

2013 vintage

Very fine and unevolved with barest trace of toasty development. Pure lemon fruit aromas and flavours. Direct and linear, with lovely cut and slatey minerality.

2013 vintage

Pear, lime. Earthy. Loads of texture. Well balanced

2013 vintage

Light yellow color; aromatic, tart peach, pear, orange cream nose; tasty, creamy textured, lemon cream, tart peach, mineral palate with medium acidity; medium-plus finish (12.1% alcohol; pH 2.9; TA 7.7 g/L)

2013 vintage

Screwcap, 12.3% alc. Pale green lime/straw. Explosive lime, kaffir lime, passionfruit and apple on nose. Could smell the wine as soon as it was poured. Fluffy, powdery texture. Outstanding length and great balance. Bone dry, but has the apparent weight associated with a little R.S. Opinion: Excellent Clare Riesling. Buy more.

2013 vintage

Somms Australia - Riesling Tasting : Steely spice, some earth and pear. Nice mouthfeel, good length and class - on the palate the fruit is a bit more prominent and this has good punch. Much better nose than the last time I tried it and it matches up with the great palate.

2013 vintage

Australian Wine Unearthed Public Tasting (Sydney, Australia) : Earthy and phenolic nose. Has plenty of body and impact with really good texture. The nose is a bit funny right now but hopefully it calms down to match the excellent palate.

2013 vintage