Shepherd's Hut is a small Porongurup label within the Great Southern of Western Australia, its Riesling made by Rob Diletti, the acclaimed winemaker behind neighbouring Castle Rock Estate. The Porongurup sub-region sits on ancient granite hills, and its Riesling vineyards are planted on free-draining, gravelly soils derived from decomposed granite over a karri-loam base. Cool nights, elevation and a long, temperate ripening season are the hallmarks that give Porongurup Riesling its low alcohol, fine acidity and flinty minerality. The 2021 growing season delivered pristine, disease-free fruit, and this bottle is a museum release held in the winery's own cellars, offered with several years of bottle age to show early development.

Fruit was hand-selected and gently handled to protect the delicate, aromatic character of Porongurup Riesling. Whole bunches were pressed and the juice cool-fermented in stainless steel to retain purity, citrus definition and the racy natural acidity that drives the style. The wine was made dry, without malolactic fermentation or oak, so that fruit and mineral detail remain unmasked, and bottled at a modest 11.3% alcohol. It was then cellared at the winery and released as a museum wine, allowing the classic bottle-aged kerosene note to emerge alongside kaffir lime and flinty minerality while freshness is preserved. Precise pressing and fermentation figures NEEDS VERIFICATION.