Irvine Spring Hill Riesling 2024
$27, 11.4% alcohol, screwcap, Eden Valley.
This is a riesling in fine form. It’s bone dry, stony, punchy with flavour and well-extended through the finish. It tastes of lime, grapefruit pulp, riverstones and lemon sorbet, and while it’s juicy throughout it has a smidgen of grip on the finish, which works well. The quality here is excellent. so too the drinkability. 93 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.
