Tasting Notes 🍇

• Colour – Pale straw with green hues, indicating freshness and youth.

• Aromas – Lime zest, green apple, and hints of ginger and white florals.

• Palate – Crisp citrus flavours balanced by a fine mineral backbone and subtle textural nuances.

• Finish – Long and refreshing, with lingering notes of citrus and wet stone.limefingerwine.com.au

Food Pairings 🍴

• Fresh Seafood – Complements oysters, prawns, and grilled white fish.

• Asian Cuisine – Pairs well with dishes featuring lemongrass, ginger, or chilli.

• Goat Cheese – Enhances the creaminess and tang of soft goat cheeses.

• Vegetable Dishes – Ideal with asparagus, zucchini, or fresh garden salads.

Reviews & Awards 🌟

• 95 Points – Mike Bennie, Halliday Wine Companion: “This has delicacy as its charter. A light, gently chalky white wine with fine, feathery mineral notes, lime-lemonade, faint ginger, green apple and green melon notes between the perfume and palate. Fine boned as it is, there’s serious texture here despite the levity. It does a lot, in a lithe frame. And it is delicious.”

Winemaking & Natural Practices 🍷

• Vineyard – Sourced from the Springviews Vineyard, planted in 1985 on granitic soils.

• Farming – Dry-grown vines benefiting from the cooling influence of the Southern Ocean.

• Winemaking – Minimal intervention to preserve site expression; fermented in stainless steel to retain freshness.

Storage & Serving Tips 🧊

• Serving Temperature – Best enjoyed chilled at 8–10°C.

• Cellaring – Drink now or cellar for up to 8 years to develop additional complexity.

• Decanting – Not necessary; however, allowing the wine to breathe can enhance its aromatic profile.getwinesdirect.com

FAQ Wine Terms 🤔

• What makes this Riesling unique?
  Its expression of the Porongurup terroir, showcasing mineral purity and textural elegance.

• Is it suitable for aging?
  Yes, it has excellent cellaring potential, developing greater complexity over time.

• What foods pair best with this wine?
  Seafood, Asian dishes, goat cheese, and fresh vegetables complement its profile.

Additional Info 📋

• Grape Variety – 100% Riesling

• Region – Porongurup, Great Southern, Western Australia

• Alcohol – 12.5% ABV

• Closure – Screwcap

• Maturation – Stainless steel fermentation to preserve freshness and purity.

Learn More About Lowboi

Lowboi Winery may still fly under the radar for many wine enthusiasts, but for those familiar with the Great Southern region of Western Australia, it’s a name beginning to turn heads—particularly for its striking Rieslings. Helmed by Guy Lyons, the winemaker behind the historic Forest Hill Vineyard, Lowboi is a side project that lets Lyons dig deeper into small-batch, terroir-expressive wines. One of its brightest stars is the 2024 Lowboi Riesling, a wine that captures the essence of Porongurup with elegance, precision, and undeniable regional character.

Porongurup: A Hidden Gem for World-Class Riesling

The Porongurup Range, located within the Great Southern wine region, is a remarkable place for growing Riesling. Rising from ancient granitic outcrops, the range provides not just visual drama but viticultural advantage. Its soils are predominantly weathered granite—low in fertility but excellent for drainage—forcing vines to dig deep for water and nutrients, naturally limiting yields and concentrating flavours. The result? Wines of structure, intensity, and minerality.

Porongurup’s climate also plays a key role. Situated just a short drive from the cooling influence of the Southern Ocean, the region enjoys a long, mild growing season. Days are sunlit and temperate, but nights are cool, which helps to preserve acidity in the grapes. For Riesling, a variety that thrives in cooler climates, this is a dream combination. The grapes ripen slowly, developing aromatic complexity while retaining the freshness that defines the best examples of the variety.

Lowboi’s Pure Expression: Riesling with Precision and Texture

The 2024 Lowboi Riesling exemplifies these conditions with clarity. Sourced from the dry-grown Springviews Vineyard, established in 1985, the wine channels the purity and tension that make Porongurup Rieslings so compelling. Aromas of lime zest, green apple, and delicate white florals rise from the glass, while the palate delivers a chalky, mineral-laced texture—a tactile reminder of the granitic soil. There’s a notable line of acidity that cuts through the citrus and spice, providing both structure and length.

Critics have taken note. Mike Bennie, writing for the Halliday Wine Companion, awarded the 2024 vintage 95 points, praising its “delicacy”, “fine, feathery mineral notes”, and “serious texture despite the levity”. It’s a wine with balance and finesse, offering immediate appeal but also the promise of graceful ageing over the next 5–8 years.

Lowboi’s approach is minimalist in the best sense. The winemaking is hands-off, designed to preserve the purity of the site. Fermentation takes place in stainless steel to maintain freshness, and there’s no oak influence to distract from the vineyard’s natural expression. The Springviews vines are dry-grown—rare in a modern era increasingly reliant on irrigation—further intensifying concentration and character in the fruit.

This minimalist philosophy extends to how the wine performs on the table. The 2024 Riesling is wonderfully versatile with food. Its bright acidity and mineral backbone make it a natural partner for seafood—think oysters, prawns, or grilled white fish. Its subtle spice and citrus lift complement Asian dishes rich in ginger, lemongrass, or even chilli. And the wine’s refined texture pairs beautifully with goat cheese or fresh vegetable-based fare.

While Lowboi remains a relatively niche project, it stands as a serious contender among Australia’s new-wave Riesling producers. With the 2024 Riesling, Guy Lyons has delivered not just a beautiful wine, but a distilled expression of Porongurup itself—a cool-climate pocket whose potential is only beginning to be fully understood.

As more wine lovers seek out purity, elegance, and regional authenticity, Lowboi is quietly making its case. If this vintage is any indication, it won’t be long before the project gains the recognition it deserves. For now, it remains a rare gem: a small-production wine with world-class aspirations, rooted in one of Australia’s most distinctive terroirs.