Allegiance Wines Alumni Clare Valley Riesling 2025
AU$35, 11% alcohol, screwcap, Clare Valley.
This is a dry, slatey, mouth-watering riesling with lime fruit flavours embedded impressively with bath salt, pebble, grape and complex tangerine-like notes. It’s medium in intensity and high in quality. Tonic water and (unsweetened) lemonade notes emerge as the wines breathes. This is very good. 93 points – 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.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
