Adelina Polish Hill River Smith Riesling 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Adelina Polish Hill River Smith Riesling 2025.

Adelina Polish Hill River Smith Riesling 2025
$38, 10.7% alcohol, screwcap, Clare Valley.

Yes there’s excellent intensity of flavour here and yes it penetrates long through the finish. But it’s the dry, slatey aspect of the finish, in context, that really beguiles and really emphasises the wine’s presence. Green apple, lime, lemon myrtle and bath salt characters slash their way through the palate in the most convincing of ways. This is a terrific riesling. 95 points – Campbell Mattinson.

Adelina is a Mattinson 10-Star Winery.

Campbell Mattinson

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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