Best Value: Kirrihill Regional Series Riesling 2023

Kirrihill Regional Series Riesling 2023 is one of Australia's best value white wines.

Kirrihill Regional Series Riesling 2023 is, at $19, one of Australia’s best value white wines.

Kirrihill Regional Series Riesling 2023 has to be one of the best value wines in Australian at the moment. It’s a wine that says to me that the wine industry is under stress, and whenever it is – at least in the short term – consumers tend to be the beneficiaries. This riesling is priced to be fun and friendly but is actually serious and cellar-able. It has very good intensity of sweet lime, lemon leaf and sherbet-like flavours and there’s a bit of texture and/or grip to it as well. It tastes like a $30+ or $40+ riesling rather than a $19 one. There are some pretty amazing deals around on this wine too, so shop around and make hay. This is excellent quality and excellent value.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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