Reed Amplitude Riesling 2024

If I was rich man I would buy every single bottle. Only 600 litres produced off what Sierra Reed emphatically stated is the best Riesling vineyard outside Germany and to emphasis the point, the Riesling is no longer, grafted over to Chardonnay for commercial reasons. If you have taken my advice, you too will feel the loss with every beautiful, tragic sip. This is the best off- dry Riesling I have tasted outside of Germany, utterly superior to anything from Australia at this point in time. Full bodied, yes indeed, there is a sense of amplitude, a sort of chiselled stature of fleshy voluminousness. Blackcurrant, clotted cream, grapefruit, blood orange, spring jasmine, white and red cherry and nectarine. Profoundly tense, every facet offset by an opposite, just begging for harmonising time. Norris at Waters Wine Co

This wine is a time capsule for the last harvest of Riesling off its site and I was happy to capture its electricity in a bottle. There’s something about the way Waitaki tastes in Riesling that is pure magic. Limestone expressing itself in the form of crackling acidity and chalk, you can taste the shape of the soil through the wine, it becomes so physical. This place may be small but she is mighty and every part of the region has Riesling gold to mine and create what I believe is the best Riesling outside of Germany.

The name “Amplitude” came to Ian when I was describing how I feel this magnetic pull every time I get close to the Waitaki, followed by this electric current running through me. The feeling is so similar to how the wines taste, it’s crazy. Ian works at the beautiful old Kurow Power Station and so “Amplitude” seemed fitting. Sierra Reed, Winemaker