Knappstein Enterprise Vineyard Riesling 2025
$35, 11% alcohol, screwcap, Clare Valley.
This is a fine-boned riesling with Granny Smith apple and lime flavours shooting through the palate and a finish that lingers nicely. It carries notes of steel, lemon and nectarine and feels super-fresh throughout. <outh-watering is the word. This summer or any time over the next 5-plus years, this will perform well. 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.
