Smeaton Estate Sienna Riesling 2017

18 Apr

Smeaton Estate Sienna Riesling 2017
$38, 13.2% alcohol, screwcap, Adelaide Hills.

Smeaton Estate has been growing great grapes for over 25 years now, though for much of that journey its grapes have been used to make other wine producers look good. It only really produces wine under its own label when it thinks that it has something truly special on its hands. This riesling, at eight years of age, is Exhibit A. It’s quite something. It has terrific intensity of lime-driven flavour, shows modest signs of complex secondary characters, and bursts through the finish with the energy of a wine a third of its age. It’s a complete wine. One sip and you know that you’re onto something special. 96 points.

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Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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