Amaranth is Dry River’s designation for wines they believe will age unusually well. This incredible Riesling is the only one of their current releases to receive this designation. It’s big and dry and very young and incredibly concentrated for only 11.5% alcohol.
What blew me away was the dead-on and unmistakable “petrol” quality of great dry Riesling that was only an element in the wine’s complexity, not dominant. No one element is ever dominant in these wines. I love the top Australian Rieslings like Grosset…but this is at another level, with a certain “Old World” profundity I’ve never experienced outside of Austria or Alsace (and very rarely there).