Poison Hill Riesling
2011 Poison Hill Riesling
James Halliday Australian Wine Companion ENewsletter
"Light straw-green, much more expressive than Isolation Ridge at this early stage, with fragrant lime blossom rising from the glass at the first swirl, and fills the mouth with its bold and ripe flavours. Is the most precocious of the 2011 Frankland Estate Rieslings."
09/01/2012
2011 Poison Hill Riesling
The Age Epicure - Ralph Kyte Powell
"Frankland Estate has vigorously promoted riesling for many years. Its own label is focused on vineyards in Western Australia’s southern Frankland River region but it serves the cause of riesling from other regions and countries as well via seminars and a range of events. Poison Hill is an individual vineyard wine that offers more dimension than most young rieslings. Savoury mineral aromas are subtly interwoven with white peach, lime and a delightfully blossomy, herby perfume. The palate treads a refined line through rich flavours and a lingering, gently tangy finish. Drink over 5 years."
14/02/2012
2010 Poison Hill Riesling
James Halliday - Australian Wine Companion
"Perfumed and open in personality with Meyer lemon, ginger and musk on show; the palate reveals fleshy, soft and inviting fruit, with a slight exotic candied zest appeal; accessible, but will age with grace."
2012
2010 Poison Hill Riesling
Jeremy Oliver - The Australian WIne Annual
"A Europe-inspired charmer whose soft, generous presence of rich fruit flavour and complexity is enhanced by a fine, slatey texture and a savoury finish. Rather pungent and spicy, its creamy, wild and faintly meaty bouquet of apricots, peaches and cinnamon is lifted with a wild floral scent. Long and luscious, with Alsatian aspirations, its tangy and richly fruited, finishing with a modest sweetness countered by fresh acids and fine phenolics."
2012
2009 Poison Hill Riesling
WIne Business Monthly - Wine 100 Tyson Stelzer
"A standout vintage for this vineyard, this will be one of its longest-lived wines to date, thanks to a driving grapefruit and lingering lemon zest finish. Zippy and focused, it glitters with minerality and rides on an icy razor edge of defined structure. Give it time to mellow and soften."
June 2010
2009 Poison Hill Riesling
Stephen Tanzer - International Wine Cellar
" Pale gold. Complex, spicy aromas of tangerine, lime, dusty minerals and white flowers, plus a pear skin nuance. Tangy and sharply focused, with a sweet hint of candied orchard fruits adding depth. A refreshingly brisk, high-toned quality gives the wine vibrancy and carries through the spicy finish. This benefits greatly from aeration; I'd give it three or four years of bottle aging, at least. "
Issue 151, July/August 2010
2009 Poison Hill Riesling
James Halliday - Australian WIne Companion
"Distinctly deeper in colour than Isolation Ridge; while deeper and arguably more complex, it does not have the seamless line of Isolation Ridge; was there a touch of botrytis? "
2011
2009 Poison Hill Riesling
Jeremy Oliver - The Australian Wine Annual
"Long, stylish and very shapely, despite being so rich and generous. Its musky, slightly meaty bouquet of apple blossom, rose petal and cinnamon precedes a round, juicy palate whose penetrative flavours of white peach, pear and apple are tightly wound in by a fresh, lemony acidity. It finishes with a lingering presence of tropical fruit."
2011
2008 Poison Hill Riesling
"Wine Business Monthly"
"White clay soils make Poison Hill the most generous of the Frankland Estate Riesling trio. This year it is rich and full, with flavours of kerosene, white peach and guava fruit. Enjoy it while its siblings rest in the cellar."
May 2009
2008 Poison Hill Riesling
"Food & Wine: Grape Expectations" - Daily Examiner
"One could be forgiven for refusing to drink such a thing but one mans passion is another mans poison or in this case, both. Good Poison."
April 2009
2008 Poison Hill Riesling
Tim White - Australian Financial Review
"The fruit from this special and remote block of vines in WA’s Great Southern region invariably creates something interesting each vintage. It tends to yield rieslings, which are more European-scented and textured. Piercing on the nose, there’s rose, almost lychee, with intense lime peel and a touch of just-ripe white nectarine. The fruit lingers long and there are nutty mouth-aromas. Even better in a few years but is still giving up lots now."
16-18 September 2011
2007 Poison Hill Riesling
James Halliday - Australian Wine Companion
"Poison Hill Vineyard Riesling 2007 More weight and citrus fruits on the very long and textured mineral finish."
2009
2006 Poison Hill Riesling
Gourmet Traveller 2006
"A shy, restrained young riesling with a big future, this has a floral, talc-like personality with a juicy softness but also great refinement and delicacy. A smidgin of sweetness helps balance it. A gorgeous wine. 7+."
2006
2005 Poison Hill Riesling
James Halliday - Australian Wine Companion
"Flowery bouquet; passionfruit and tropical flavours; the most elegant of the '05 Rieslings, but no shrinking violet. Screwcap."
2007
2005 Poison Hill Riesling
Philip White - The Advertiser
"Musk, vivid banana, mango, pineapple and sweet yellow peach are the disarmingly vibrant aromas of this drink. It is from a remote 30-year-old organic vineyard in stony white clay in Great Southern, Western Australia. Its gently persistent to taste, with poached pear taking over the fruit salad; that pithy pear-like tannin gives a velvety finish, rather than steely acidity. Nothing like SA rizza. Indian butter chicken."
March 2006
2004 Poison Hill Riesling
James Halliday - Australian Wine Companion
"Poison Hill Vineyard Riesling 2004 More open, with some tropical fruit aromas; the palate follows suit with soft, tropical fruit. Late-picked style with some alcohol sweetness."
2006
2002 Poison Hill Riesling
Jeremy Oliver - "On Wine"
"A dusty mineral fragrance of spicy floral perfume and delicate citrus peel aroma precedes a long, even and mineral palate whose restrained, but vibrant flavour finishes with steely austerity. Long and focused, but just slightly herbal. "
July / August 2003
2001 Poison Hill Riesling
Tanzer
"Pale, bright straw-green. Deeply perfumed with lemon blossom, honeysuckle, mandarin orange and spicy apple aromas, plus an underlying suggestion of wet slate. Juicy, fleshy and almost chewy, with a smooth and very generous palate of apple, pear and peach flavors complicated by a musky suggestion of rose oil. Very distinctive, individual riesling, finishing dry and long, with an earthy, waxy aftertaste."
July 2002