Penna Lane Watervale Riesling 2025

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Penna Lane Watervale Riesling 2025

Penna Lane Watervale Riesling 2025
$35, 10.5% alcohol, screwcap, Clare Valley.

This is from a vineyard at Leasingham in the famed Watervale sub-region of South Australia’s Clare Valley. It’s a frisky riesling, and a long-flavoured one, with lime juice and lime leaf flavours floating into bath salts, florals, rust and steel. Both freshness and length are its best friends, courtesy of its long, lean, scintillating flavour profile. It needs either super-fresh seafood or a stint in the cellar to show its best. 92+ points.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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