Koonowla Reverence Riesling 2025
$28, 12% alcohol, screwcap, Clare Valley.
Lovely, soft, fluid riesling with lime, ginger, brine and tonic water characters flowing evenly and well throughout. There’s some texture to this wine, and good intensity to the fruit, and an appealing, soft, almost-chewiness – in the context of succulent fruit. Excellent drinking. 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.
