The classic, beautifully pristine Leo Buring Leonay Rieslings – with their complicated bin numbers – reflect the pinnacle of harvest across the Eden and Clare Valleys. Cool fermentation in stainless steel protects aromatics and cold settling promotes richness and complexity. This is an extremely fine-boned style with fragrant lemon, pear skin, grapefruit and tonic water aromatics, and fine chalky textures with pure fruit flavours and fine, indelible acid cut.
96 points + Elite Gold
Canberra International Riesling Challenge 2016
95 points + Gold Medal
Canberra International Riesling Challenge 2017
Gold Medal
Clare Valley Wine Show 2014 and 2016
Gold Medal
Royal Hobart Wine Show 2016
DWQ 18. Pale straw-green; floral aromas of lime and lemon blossom lead into a delicious fruit-sweet palate, braced by brisk mineral/talc acidity, leaving the aftertaste as fresh as a spring day. Watervale.
95 points, Wine Companion (September 2013)
(Please note: This review was issued on release when the wine was labeled as DW Q18)
DW Q18. Lovely green apple vibrant nose, Delicious flavour, lemon meringue pudding and baked apple pie. Rich, soft and yet dry, lovely balance, poise and freshness. Long carry. The palate is seamless.
95 points, The Real Review (September 2015)
(DWQ18) Palish straw colour. Lime juice fragrance with a hint of crushed lime leaf, the palate very frisky and briskly acid, with a terrific freshness and intensity. Tremendously fine and intense, concentrated and long. Great riesling.
95 points, The Real Review (November 2013)
(Please note: These reviews were issued on release when the wine was labeled as DW Q18)
The other star wine in a quick bracket of five 2013 Clare Valley Rieslings.
A more subdued and settled wine with an almost chalky sort of character, lemon and tonic flavour, packed full of minerally goodness and fine through the length of palate. Note a little pithy bitterness on the finish, but it’s so long and impressive it does not detract at all. Tangy power and flavoursome goodness in a lithe frame. Tasty even as a young wine, but with its best yet to come. A very strong release.
94+ points, The Wine Front (September 2013)
(Please note: This review was issued on release when the wine was labeled as DW Q18)
Hermann Paul Leopold Buring (better known as Leo Buring) was born in 1876 in South Australia to German parents. In 1896 Leo was Dux of the Oenology course at Roseworthy Agricultural College, and in 1902, after studying at Geisenheim, Germany and Montpellier, France, he joined Penfolds Minchinbury Cellars near Mt Druitt in New South Wales. In 1931 Buring formed a business partnership with Reginald Mowat of Great Western called Leo Buring & Co. His first wine was made from grapes grown at his Emu Plains property in the early 1930s. However, he moved the major part of his wine operations to the Barossa Valley in South Australia in 1945. John Vickery joined in 1953 and a golden period followed. During the 1960s and 1970s Leo Buring Rieslings were regarded as the very best white Australian wines. The brand fell under the radar in the intervening decades due to various corporate reshuffles, but is today once again on the ascendancy, making its name strictly as Riesling specialist. The Leo Buring Leonay DW Riesling is the top cuvee and is either an Eden Valley of Clare Riesling depending on which area delivers the best parcels of fruit in any given vintage. Leo Buring also produces a standard Clare Riesling and an Eden Valley Riesling both offering superb value for money.
