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Murrumbateman's cool, continental climate and decomposed granite soils are perfect for Riesling. We have been growing and making Riesling for forty years and we have no doubt the variety is Canberra's great white grape.

This Riesling shows fine, floral perfume with ripe apple notes and a hint of aniseed. A crisp, zesty palate with plenty of mineral acids. Really fresh. Drink now for its freshness and perfume or cellar for 6-12 years and watch it develop honey and toast characters with age.

A scintillating, fresh young Riesling from Murrumbateman that has a wealth of fine minerally aromas on the nose, some lime and lemon, and green apple too. The palate's bright, tangy and crisp, and mouth-watering acidity crunches through. It's dry, clean and unwaveringly linear. 94 points - Nick Stock, The Age/SMH Good Wine Guide 2012

The cool 2011 vintage has blessed the Kirks with some of their finest riesling fruit yet. Precise, pretty, and long-lived, with a pink lady apple, lemon blossom and fresh lime air and a fine-boned, structured, taut palate of soft, graphite-like minerality. 94 points Tyson Stelzer, Wine Taste, August 11, 2011

Tim Kirk's 2011 Riesling is slightly more alcoholic than Helm's wine (12 per cent verses 11.2 per cent), suggesting marginally more ripeness. This reveals itself in the delicate floral notes in the aroma and flavour. The wine seems, overall, a little more delicate than Helm's, perhaps because of the floral character and the absolutely delicious integration of the acidity and fruit flavour. Both wines should be candidates for gold medals at the regional show later this year - that's how good they are. Either could have been wine of the week. 2011 looks exciting for Canberra whites.' Four and a half stars - - Chris Shanahan, The Canberra Times, August 3, 2011.

Long and lean, this focused, tightly sculpted and deeply perfumed Riesling has a heady scent of white flowers, lavender, lime juice and lemon rind backed by a hint of fresh pear. It's piercingly intense palate of crystalline lime, pear and apple flavour is underpinned by lemon sherbet-like chalkiness, finishing taut and steely, with a hint of minerality and a suggestion of sweetness neatly balanced by fresh acidity.' 93 points Jeremy Oliver, The Australian Wine Annual 2012

Pale straw-green; a floral bouquet of apple blosom and spice, right up there with the best of them, yields to a palate with great drive to its lime juice flavours that last long after the wine is swallowed. Right up there with the best of them. 96 points James Halliday's Top 100 NSW Wines 2011