Purple Palate

Adrew Holt's masterful, Eden Valley Shiraz's have a purist's partner in this elegant riesling. His near 40-year-old, family-planted vines have long been delivering the sort of ethereal urgency of the region's finest. The 2010 hints at everything Eden Valley does best, delivering extraordinary lemon/lime richness through a needle-eye of razor-sharp acidity. With a powdery aura of field flowers and slatey textures, this is at once unctuous and refreshing, with a indefinite cellar life. -NT