Review: Limefinger Learnings Watervale Riesling 2024. Just great

Superb Riesling from a Clare Valley hero. That’s it, that’s the takeaway.

Limefinger is Neil Pike’s retirement project, papyrus font and all, with the two wines under this label uniformly great. You’ll want to clear a space for this excellent Limefinger Learnings Watervale Riesling 2024 as well. Sourced from the Honey Home block, owned by the Barry family, it’s an uncompromising wine – for one, it’s water clear/nigh on colourless. There is way too much supercharged lime fruit here for such light colours. Hat tip, Neil: this is special.

The Learnings smells of lime, cooked lime and a little whisper of florals. Picture perfect super-concentrated palate of, you guessed it, limey intensity hits hard and long, a perfect cover drive to the boundary for four runs. The acidity is firm but not unripe, and that mid-palate generosity is instantly alluring. Touch and go for 96 points, a superstar Riesling that I bloody loved.

THE VERDICT

• Best drinking: now or whenever. It won't die
• Score (out of 20): 18.7
• Score (out of 100): 95
• Alcohol %: 12
• RRP (in $AUD): 42
• Winery website: https://limefingerwine.com.au/
• Would I buy it?: in a heartbeat