Accolades anyone? James Halliday awarded Grosset Wines “Australia’s 2018 Best Value Winery”. Grosset made the Wine and Spirits (USA) “World’s Top 100 Wineries” list in 2017. Founder Jeffrey Grosset was voted inaugural Australian Winemaker of the Year by Gourmet Traveller WINE in 1998, he is internationally recognised as one of Decanter UK’s ‘Top 10 White Winemakers’ and one of the ‘50 Most Influential Winemakers’ (Wine & Spirits, USA) in the world today.
But wait there’s more:
Jeffrey Grosset is “Australia’s acknowledged King of Riesling”
Jancis Robinson MW
Obviously Grosset Winery has an embarrassment of riches in the realm of awards and global recognition with wine critics becoming effusive poets when lyrically defining the most iconic wine of Grosset – the Polish Hill Riesling.
“Modern day classics”, “should be on every oenophile’s bucket list”, “One of the very best you’ll ever try”, “This is the benchmark for all Australian Riesling”, “super-pristine finesse and breathtaking, microscopic refinement” …
“The finest Riesling, I have ever tasted from Australia.”
Robert Parker Jnr.
With so many rave reviews it may seem effortless for founder and winemaker, Jeff Grosset. But he’s put in a lot of hard yakka to wrest pure liquid magic out of his racy Rieslings vintage after vintage! Read more about Grosset Wines here.
“Jeff Grosset’s Polish Hill is consistently Australia’s finest Riesling.”
Winsor Dobbin, Wine Writer
Polish Hill Riesling has become one of the wine world’s most guaranteed, bullet-proof purchases!
This wine has a super-cult status and given the tiny production, is extremely difficult to find… but fortunately for you, dear Dhall & Nash customers, we have a limited allocation of the cellar worthy vinous jewels available.
Jump in quick! to secure your 2022 Polish Hill beauties now!
“1 September marks the release of the Polish Hill 2022, the fairest of them all!”
Tyson Stelzer, Wine writer
Winemaker’s Notes:
Bright and potent with intense lime juice aromatics that commands attention, this wine has a wonderful lime, lemongrass core, intensity, and power yet with balance in the mid-palate. There’s a purity which thrills: it’s tight and fine before a long limey finish and a whisper of minerality. So attractive and persistent in its youth, it has the depth, power, and balance to enjoy now or in 20 years. Cellar? ‘As long as you like’ says Jeff – up to 25 years, or drink now!
“This is the benchmark for all Australian Riesling. There, we said it. Geoffrey Grosset is an unbelievably talented winemaker and his skills with the Riesling grape are undeniable. He has raised the status of Aussie Riesling to one that competes comfortably on the world stage.”
The Wine Collective
Vintage Report 2022
Jeffrey describes “a late vintage by recent standards, the weather this season was more like that experienced in 1980’s and 90’s.
“It was for us an idyllic vintage: even moderate crops of all varieties – similar to 2018 in volume but well above those of 2019, 2020 and 2021, all of which were affected by insufficient rain. During the growing season, it was mild and sunny. The weather during harvest time was, without interruption, stunningly beautiful!”
“A late vintage by recent standards, the weather this season was more like that experienced in 1980’s and 90’s. It was for us an idyllic vintage: even moderate crops of all varieties – similar to 2018 in volume but well above those of 2019, 2020 and 2021, all of which were affected by insufficient rain. During the growing season, it was mild and sunny. The weather during harvest time was, without interruption, stunningly beautiful!”
Jeffrey Grosset
The Wine
An Ethereal Yet Powerful Being!
Jeffrey Grosset and his Rieslings never cease to amaze – he is the best of the best. Grosset’s wines are pure and driven, steely and focussed, poised and powerful. And 2022 will not disappoint!
We’ve moved beyond simply “great” wine and into the realm of iconic, category-defining Riesling – Do not delay – Snap up an allocation of 2022 before it runs dry – call your Dhall & Nash account manager now! ☺
“Jeffrey Grosset reckons 2022 is an even better vintage for him than 2021, which is some statement as 2021 was a cracker.”
Huon Hooke, The Real Review
Grosset 'Polish Hill' Riesling 2022
Clare Valley, Australia
Alcohol: 12.5%
Color: Pale yellow in colour.
Aroma: Bright & potent with intense lime juice aromatics that commands attention.
Palette: This wine has a wonderful lime, lemongrass core; intensity and power yet with balance in the mid-palate. There’s a purity which thrills: it’s tight and fine before a long limey finish and a whisper of minerality. So attractive and persistent in its youth, it has the depth, power and balance to enjoy now or in 20 years.
98 points“Spectacular nose with a cornucopia of delicate citrus, stone-fruit, and wildflower aromas. Then, a no less stunning combination of fruit and radically slate, flint and aniseed character. Very long finish with so much energy and great minerality. Excellent aging potential! From biodynamically grown grapes. Drink or hold.”
96 points“Tasted twice, once within a little vertical, and, well, just now in the comfort of my own home. Saline, lime margarita, aniseed, lemongrass, and floral notes. So intense, but pure, and quietly juicy with it, all the squeezed lime and freshness, with a very long chalky finish. An outstanding release. Such energy and vivacity. Zing!”
“A stunning pure precise Polish Hill from ‘The Master’, a wine that is enthusiastically thrust forward to mount the case the 2022 vintage for Clare Riesling may even surpass the spectacular 2021s.”
Nick Ryan, Wine Critic
97 points“Up there with the finest vintages of Polish Hill yet. Pristine lemon blossom, exact granny smith apple and talcum powder unite in a Riesling of super pristine finesse and breathtaking, microscopic refinement. One of the most breathtaking Polish Hills to ever grace the earth, irresistible from the outset with an effortless and endless future before it.”
Tyson Stelzer, Wine Business Magazine
96 points“Pale colour, creamy yeasty, waxy, lemon-pith and blossom aromas, discreet and refined, tense and delicate in mouth; racy and lean, pared-back compared to the Springvale. Built beautiful perfumes as it sat in the glass. Tension is high, the wine is dry but supple and balanced, neither tart nor lacking acid, but harmonious. Long finish needs time. Will surely score higher in future. 2023–2037”
“[2022 Polish Hill Riesling] has a complexity and intense minerality that puts it in the first league globally.”
Stuart Pigott, jamessuckling.com
