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

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.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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