Ghost Rock Estate Riesling 2025 - In Bond

Bouquet: An inviting nose of lemon peel, grapefruit, green apple, and a hint of chalk. Pure and expressive.
 
Palate: Lively on entry, the acidity carries all the way through and delivers a powerful punch. Juicy and moreish, with a fine texture and powerful persistence
 
Vintage: Another warm and dry vintage off the back of 2024, where the rain held off during harvest and we had all the time in the world to pick at ideal ripeness with very little disease pressure. The vines were happy and healthy, and loaded with a high quality crop. We harvested slightly earlier than usual, about a week ahead of our average start date. The whites were brought in slightly earlier to maintain fresh acidity and vibrancy, where some of the Pinots were left on the vine for longer to reach phenolic ripeness.
Overall 2025 was the kind of vintage we dream about, warm days, cool nights and little to no rain during the ripening period. The resulting wines are showing a lovely balance and character consistent with the intense fruit and spice flavours that are a hallmark of our site.
 
Winemaking: Fruit was harvested gently while cold and put direct into press. Following mild clarification, half of the juice was fermented in tank with our house style yeast. The other half was racked to large format neutral barrels, where a wild fermentation was encouraged. At the desired residual sugar level, fermentation was ceased and a 2 month lees stirring program was implemented to promote textural diversity.
 
Viticulture: Our Riesling is sourced from the Oulton, Bonadale and Iris vineyards - 3 distinctly unique sites despite such proximity to one another. Fruit from the lower cropping, warmer Oulton vineyard was harvested first, before the later ripening Bonadale and Iris fruit arrived at the winery Thanks to aggressive leaf plucking and our maritime conditions, we do not experience much of the disease pressure and fruit loss that can occur when ripening Riesling. Vines are meticulously leaf plucked in early February.