Vintage: 2024
Tasting notes: Intensely aromatic; cool climate citrus, stone fruit and mineral notes. Richly flavoured, with textural phenolics; savoury, saline complexity from lees contact and barrel ferment. With our riesling release programme of extended bottle maturation in place, the 2024 is the most approachable and balanced Das Sakrileg release yet, one with a long cellaring future ahead.
Winemaker’s notes: Das Sakrileg is produced in small quantities for those with inquisitive palates and a healthy appreciation of diversity. In contrast to the classic, purist Australian Riesling style, juice is oxidatively handled, fermented wild in old French oak with solids, matured on unsulphured lees and may undergo partial malolactic fermentation.
This is a selection of the best barrels from the vintage, sourced from two outstanding Great Southern riesling sites. Coming from a warmer than typical growing season, the 2024 is remarkably open and expressive in its youth, showing phenolic presence, depth and generosity, with scents reminiscent of quince, beeswax and mandarin, and complex characters derived from wild ferment and extended lees contact. On the finely textured palate, acidity is tempered by the richness of time on lees in large format seasoned oak. The wine fermented slowly at ambient temperature in a cool hillside cellar and remained on lees in old puncheons and hogsheads for 10 months, before racking and bottling without fining or filtration. Alcohol 12.5%
Reviews:
“This Riesling is something of a calling card for La Violetta. As it's barrel fermented, it shows depth and ripeness, richness of fruit, mango skin, golden kiwi, quince, pomelo and notes of beeswax and flint. There's a mineral tension building here with each sip, but the texture is relaxed in a way, not racing, rather patient, sinking slowly but deeply with a ripe, pithy acidity and a toasted almond edge. What a wine. So delicious. 95 Points.”
Kasia Sobiesiak, WineFront
“This wine is a practice in balance! Intense on the nose - brimming with Key lime flesh, Makrut lime pith, sorrel flowers, riverbed stones, raw almonds, macadamia nut, and honeysuckle. The palate is textured and waxy, centred around a core of fresh white peach, brioche, and hay flavours. It finishes hauntingly long.”
Young Gun of Wine Deep Dive tasting, Great Southern Riesling edition.
Vintage: 2024
Tasting notes: Intensely aromatic; cool climate citrus, stone fruit and mineral notes. Richly flavoured, with textural phenolics; savoury, saline complexity from lees contact and barrel ferment. With our riesling release programme of extended bottle maturation in place, the 2024 is the most approachable and balanced Das Sakrileg release yet, one with a long cellaring future ahead.
Winemaker’s notes: Das Sakrileg is produced in small quantities for those with inquisitive palates and a healthy appreciation of diversity. In contrast to the classic, purist Australian Riesling style, juice is oxidatively handled, fermented wild in old French oak with solids, matured on unsulphured lees and may undergo partial malolactic fermentation.
This is a selection of the best barrels from the vintage, sourced from two outstanding Great Southern riesling sites. Coming from a warmer than typical growing season, the 2024 is remarkably open and expressive in its youth, showing phenolic presence, depth and generosity, with scents reminiscent of quince, beeswax and mandarin, and complex characters derived from wild ferment and extended lees contact. On the finely textured palate, acidity is tempered by the richness of time on lees in large format seasoned oak. The wine fermented slowly at ambient temperature in a cool hillside cellar and remained on lees in old puncheons and hogsheads for 10 months, before racking and bottling without fining or filtration. Alcohol 12.5%
Reviews:
“This Riesling is something of a calling card for La Violetta. As it's barrel fermented, it shows depth and ripeness, richness of fruit, mango skin, golden kiwi, quince, pomelo and notes of beeswax and flint. There's a mineral tension building here with each sip, but the texture is relaxed in a way, not racing, rather patient, sinking slowly but deeply with a ripe, pithy acidity and a toasted almond edge. What a wine. So delicious. 95 Points.”
Kasia Sobiesiak, WineFront
“This wine is a practice in balance! Intense on the nose - brimming with Key lime flesh, Makrut lime pith, sorrel flowers, riverbed stones, raw almonds, macadamia nut, and honeysuckle. The palate is textured and waxy, centred around a core of fresh white peach, brioche, and hay flavours. It finishes hauntingly long.”
Young Gun of Wine Deep Dive tasting, Great Southern Riesling edition.
