Torzi Matthews Frost Dodger Riesling 2021
Style: White Wine
Variety: Riesling
Closure: Screwcap
Torzi Matthews Frost Dodger Riesling 2021
Warehouse
Burke Road
Camberwell VIC 3124
Australia
Producer: Torzi Matthews
Country: Australia
Region: Eden Valley
Vintage: 2021
Critic Score: 96
Alcohol: 12.5%
Size: 750 ml
Drink by: 2035
"Australia's best bargain winemaker. A producer of beautiful honest wines from the Barossa." Philip White
Torzi Matthews is located in a small, remote, frost prone hollow at Mt McKenziein in the Eden Valley. The vineyard sits at an elevation of 380m and produces low yields of high quality fruit. Fruit for the Frost Dodger Riesling is sourced from old vines dating back to 1930, planted in two frost pocketed vineyards in the Eden Valley.
"The 2020 was outstanding, and this may even be better again. 50-90 year old vines. Wooh-ah! White nectarine, flint, radish and spice, floral top notes. Pure acidity, layers of chalk dust texture, mealy, saline and juicy with pink grapefruit, lime and a super long spicy finish offering grip, kohlrabi and subtle quinine bite. Outstanding." Gary Walsh
Expert reviews
"The 2020 was outstanding, and this may even be better again. 50-90 year old vines. Wooh-ah! White nectarine, flint, radish and spice, floral top notes. Pure acidity, layers of chalk dust texture, mealy, saline and juicy with pink grapefruit, lime and a super long spicy finish offering grip, kohlrabi and subtle quinine bite. Outstanding. Drink 2021-2034." Gary Walsh, The Wine Front - 96 points
About the winery
Torzi Matthews is a partnership between Dominic Torzi and Tracy Matthews who both share a passion for crafting fine wines that express their birthplace. Domenic is fifth generation Calabrian and grew up on the Adelaide Plains working for the family’s market gardens. Tracy was born and raised in Newcastle and had a long career in hospitality.
In 1996 they stumbled across a small, remote, frost prone hollow at Mt McKenziein in the Eden Valley. They believed the diverse thin soils would produce low yields of high quality fruit that would allow them to produce flavoursome European style wines.
The vines went in, the frosts came and the yields were low. The wines are crafted using non-interventional Italian/European techniques such as hand harvesting, fruit drying, gentle extraction, whole bunch natural ferments, basket pressing and maturation in fine grained French oak barrels.
South Australia
South Australian is responsible for more than half the production of all Australian wine. It is home to more than 900 wineries across 18 wine regions. The regions are Adelaide Hills, Adelaide Plains, Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, Coonawarra, Currency Creek, Eden Valley, Kangaroo Island, Langhorne Creek, McLaren Vale, Mount Benson, Mount Gambier, Padthaway, Riverland, Robe, Southern Fleurieu, Southern Flinders Ranges and Wrattonbully.
Many of the well-known names in the South Australian wine industry established their first vineyards in the late 1830s and early 1840s. The first vines in McLaren Vale were planted at Reynella in 1839 and Penfold's established Magill Estate on the outskirts of Adelaide in 1844.
South Australia has a vast diversity in geography and climate which allows the State to be able to produce a range of grape varieties - from cool climate Riesling in the Clare and Eden Vallies to the big, full bodied Shiraz wines of the Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale. Two of Australia's best-known wines, Penfolds Grange and Henschke Hill of Grace, are produced here. There is much to discover in South Australia for the wine lover.