2023 Riesling, Josef Chromy
Tasmania, Australia
Josef Chromy Wines, based just south of Launceston in northern Tasmania, is one of the island’s most celebrated wineries. Founded by the visionary Czech-born Josef Chromy in 2007, the estate has become a benchmark for premium cool-climate Australian winemaking.
The 2024 Riesling from Josef Chromy is a pristine and finely sculpted expression of Tasmania’s cool-climate purity, vibrant, aromatic, and uncompromisingly elegant. On the nose, it opens with piercing clarity: fresh lime juice and zest are layered with delicate notes of honeysuckle, jasmine, and juicy nectarine, all lifted by a subtle chalky minerality. The palate is dry and tightly focused, offering a mouthwatering array of citrus and stone fruit such as lime, white peach, and nectarine, all interwoven with hints of fresh mint and wet stone. Crisp natural acidity and a mineral-driven backbone provide both energy and tension, carrying through to a long, precise, and refreshingly clean finish. This is a Riesling that celebrates finesse and precision, ideal for lovers of focused, terroir-driven whites.
Josef Chromy has become one of Tasmania’s most awarded wine producers, regularly earning 95+ point scores from top critics and appearing on Australia’s top wine lists.
Whats in the bottle
100% Riesling
Notable Awards
95/100 James Halliday Wine Companion “Riesling sourced from Block 9 of the Josef Chromy Relbia Vineyard just out of Launceston. Pale in the glass with aromas of lime, green apple and grapefruit and hints of crushed stone, fennel, nashi pear, lime zest, marzipan and vague whiffs of mineral salts. Focused and steely, with excellent tension between fruit and acidity, with plenty of drive finishing crisp and lipsmackingly dry and precise.”