Tasted at the Armagh Hut with Sam and Tom Barry, the 2021 The Florita Riesling is tight and compressed: this is growing/evolving in the bottle already, showing lavender, lemon zest, layers of brine, red apples and plenty of spice. It is more compressed than the 2022 but showing more development. Duh. Super long. The 2021 vintage was cool and good. Everyone was very happy with that. This was cut from the same cloth as the 2022 vintage, but perhaps the resultant wines didn’t have the depth of fruit power as 2022. There was little bit of rain (about a millimeter) before picking, so they had to work a little harder with the fruit picking. And it was bit warmer than 2022.