Rolf BinderHighness Riesling Eden Valley 2015

Description

• Pale straw in colour, Rolf Binder Eden Valley Riesling is a white wine that balances acidity and fruit flavours well.
• As well as the citrus highlights you’d expect from this grape variety, the nose has floral notes.
• The palate is lifted by a nice level of acidity which leads into a finish of zesty lime and lemon peel and lime.
• Highness Eden Valley Riesling is extremely enjoyable now while it’s young but it will drink brilliantly in ten or more years, so store some bottles in the cellar.
• Rolf Binder Eden Valley Riesling is made of fruit from two Eden Valley vineyards, one on the western side and a one from a select grower from the township.Thanks to the warm days and cool nights typical of the higher altitudes of this sub-region of the Barossa, the grapes ripen with with intense flavours while retaining a pleasing acidity.Each vintage has a different growing season and this greatly influences not just flavours but yields from the vineyards.During the winter of 2017, Rolf Binder experienced sufficient rain to fill the soil profile and provide enough moisture for the vines.This resulted in a higher yield than previous years and grapes ripened evenly after a mild summer, resulting in aromatic and vibrant wines.

  After harvesting in early March, batches of the fruit were processed and fermented separately at the winery, before blending of the wines, followed by bottling in late April.

  ABOUT THE GROWER

  Rolf Heinrich Binder and his wife, Franziska, arrived in Australia (from Austria and Hungary respectively) in 1950 as part of the large influx of post war immigration to Australia. By way of payment for the government assistance, they worked with the South Australian railways for three years. During that time they met Elmore Schulz, a train driver and grape grower in the Barossa Valley, and namesake of their neighbouring Barossa Valley Estate’s E&E Shiraz. While picking grapes in Barossa in 1953, the couple met Langmeil Road winemakers Chris Vohrer and Wilhelm Abel and this meeting proved vital to their future. In 1954 they worked a vintage at this winery and subsequently purchased the business in 1955, renaming it “Veritas”, taken from the Latin quote “In Vino Veritas” – in wine there is truth. The estate’s name was changed from Veritas to Rolf Binder in 2005 to honour the late founder who passed away in 2003.

  Rolf Binder and his sister Christa are the second generation of this wine family based in the heart of the Barossa Valley. After graduating from Roseworthy, Rolf joined his father in 1982 in their old winemaking shed in Langmeil Road. A new winery was built a short distance away in 1999, and their old wooden press also made the journey. This press is one of the keys to Rolf’s winemaking style and, when asked how old it was, Rolf replied “They found the press but they didn’t find the ark!” Christa has worked for various vineyards around the world and for Wolf Blass nearer home, specialising in white wine production. She has brought her expertise back to the family business to make the white wines and Rolf, with several overseas vintages of his own under his belt along with the secrets learnt at his father’s side, creates great Barossa reds. This unique brother and sister winemaking team have taken Rolf Binder wines to the world.