Moppity Lock & Key Riesling 2024
$30, 12% alcohol, screwcap, Hilltops.
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more delicious riesling. This is floral and fruity and accessible, its citrus-and-apple flavours running juicily throughout, and its finish both neat and chalky. There’s an exuberance to this wine, and good length too. Put it this way: I planned on drinking a single glass but couldn’t stop at one. 92 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
