Knappstein The Insider Riesling 2025
$32, 11% alcohol, screwcap, Clare Valley.
This is a wine of immediate appeal. Indeed one sip, and you’re pretty much hooked. Lemon sorbet, lime and green apple flavours combine with white flower and lychee-like notes. It’s fruity, generously flavoured and well-shaped, all of which makes it very good for drinking right now. 91 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.
