2024 Kusuda Riesling

Hiro Kusuda’s Riesling captures everything that makes his wines so revered — precision, purity, and an almost impossible level of detail. Each decision, from harvest timing to pressing, is made with absolute focus on balance, and it shows.

The 2024 release is pristine and tightly wound, all lime zest, white blossom and crushed stone. The acidity is laser-sharp yet perfectly judged, giving the wine both tension and grace. It’s luminous now but will unfold beautifully with time, gaining depth and complexity over the next decade or more.

As always, production is tiny and demand far outweighs supply — blink and it’s gone.

96 points
"The aromatic quality is fantastic here... it shows lots of energy and sophistication."
- James Suckling