Plantagenet Angevin Mount Barker Riesling 2024
£16.95
The wine
Pale straw, with intense floral and lime notes. The palate is piercingly focused.
Mount Barker Riesling is among the best in Australia and far less known than the Clare or Eden Valleys, which is much of why it remains sensibly priced. The long, cool ripening season of the Great Southern holds acidity through to picking, and wines like this age for a decade or more. Plantagenet was the first winery in the Great Southern, founded at Mount Barker in 1968, and works 126 hectares south and west of the town on gravelly loam.
The producer
Plantagenet
View all Plantagenet winesPlantagenet is the pioneering estate of Mount Barker, the founding winery of Western Australia acclaimed Great Southern region. Established in 1968, it has spent over half a century proving the area extraordinary potential for elegant, cool-climate wines.
The Great Southern climate, cool, maritime and long-seasoned, yields wines of freshness, structure and perfume. Plantagenet draws on mature vineyards and careful, restrained winemaking to capture the region distinctive character.
The range celebrates the area strengths, from taut, racy Mount Barker Riesling to peppery, structured Shiraz and classically styled Cabernet Sauvignon, each named for a historic house of Plantagenet.
Refined, age-worthy and true to their cool-climate origins, Plantagenet wines remain a benchmark for the Great Southern and a cornerstone of fine Western Australian wine.
